Hopkins Quotes - Page 3

• ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

  Billy Gibbons

  Song, Play, Reeds

  "BYT Interviews: Billy Gibbons". Interview with Jonny Grave, brightestyoungthings.com. January 18, 2016.

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• Getting to share a project with Anthony Hopkins is incredible. It's like watching Da Vinci paint or something - you're reminded why you do what you do.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Incredibles, Paint, Share

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The running joke on set [of the Westworlds] was that everyone at some point thinks that they're Anthony Hopkins. Like, "Guys, I think I'm Dr. Ford. I'm Anthony Hopkins. That's the twist." We love all of the theories. Part of the fun of that show is figuring it out.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Running, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Bernard Hopkins' accomplishments and achievements are far beyond that of the norm.

  Don King

  Accomplishment, Achievement, Norm

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• Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock.

  David Ogilvy

  Writing, College, Advertising

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• Hopkins is talking about fighting at Yankee Stadium but that's rubbish. If he fought at Yankee Stadium, even the ushers wouldn't want to watch him. Bernard Hopkins couldn't draw breath.

  Bob Arum

  Fighting, Yankees, Talking

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• This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, don’t drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, aloud and let your body sing.

  Natalie

  Getting High, Body, Want

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• I remember reading an interview that Anthony Hopkins had given about how he developed Hannibal Lecter. He said he just looked in the mirror and, I forget exactly what it was, but he looked in the mirror and realized that when he smiled, it looked creepy.

  Julie Benz

  Reading, Mirrors, Creepy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I just remember Kathy Bates getting on the stage and "The Oscar goes to Anthony Hopkins." I looked around, because I really thought Nick Nolte would get it. I really thought Nick would get it. I was very surprised. It was neck and neck with Nick Nolte and myself. So I really was expecting that to happen, and I went in there without any expectations.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Expectations, Oscars, Necks

  Interview with Helen Keier, www.ign.com. February 10, 2001.

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• When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I just feel more comfortable being called Tony or Mr. Hopkins, whatever name I'm called.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Names, People

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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• You're not going to see a new Bernard Hopkins. I'm too old for that crap. I think what you will see is something different that I know I am capable of doing.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Thinking, Different, Bernard Hopkins

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• You have to go in there and hit him. Show him that his tactics don't work. Bernard Hopkins is a fighter that you have to get straight to the point with. You can't lollygag and bullshit because that's his game. Being serious and doing my job throwing punches in the ring, that's my game. I don't come to put on a show for the people. I come to give the people a fight and give them their money's worth; give them real entertainment.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Jobs, Real, Fighting

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• The word 'snooze fest' comes to mind when talking about Hopkins' fighting style, that's what a lot of people say. He's a boring fighter.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Fighting, Talking, People

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• I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance.

  Keith Thurman

  Giving, Events, Looks

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• I remember somebody saying something to me about Frost/Nixon, when Anthony Hopkins does his famous speech, and the difference in the way Anthony did it was to dramatize, essentially, what was a documentary-style version of that speech. I remember someone saying to me, "There is artistic liberty."

  Vanessa Kirby

  Differences, Style, Liberty

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Good Life, Night, Afternoon

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• Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Kids, Littles, Likes

  Interview with Helen Keier, www.ign.com. February 10, 2001.

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• In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Home, Journey, Discovery

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• I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Brain, Stones, Matter

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• I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Real, School, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Careers, Hell, Stains

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• In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  School, Brilliant, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when what you most desire, is just out of reach...Anthony Hopkins, from the movie Shadowlands, where he plays C.S. Lewis

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Play, Joy

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• Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree." (Ellen Hopkins)

  Ellen Hopkins

  Daughter, School, Snow

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• People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.

  Anthony Hopkins

  People, Too Much, Should

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