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Day
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Nov 07, 2020

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

I Can
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Nov 07, 2020

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

Famous
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Nov 07, 2020

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Always
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Nov 07, 2020

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

Nov 07, 2020

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

Home
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Nov 07, 2020

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.

Enjoy
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Happens
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Nov 07, 2020

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

Important
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Nov 07, 2020

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Good Life
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.

Decisions
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Nov 07, 2020

I never make conscious decisions.

Generation
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Nov 07, 2020

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

He
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Nov 07, 2020

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

Himself
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Nov 07, 2020

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

Childhood
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Nov 07, 2020

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

Direction
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

Nov 07, 2020

I'm the slowest driver in the world.

Great Sense
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Nov 07, 2020

I've got a great sense of humor.

Oliver
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Nov 07, 2020

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

Father
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Nov 07, 2020

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Just
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Nov 07, 2020

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

Luck
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Nov 07, 2020

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

Nov 07, 2020

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Little
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I love life because what more is there?

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

Bad
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Nov 07, 2020

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Dreams
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Nov 07, 2020

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

Orchestra
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Nov 07, 2020

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

Nov 07, 2020

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

I like to take it easy.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

Mind
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

Depending
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Nov 07, 2020

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

Anything
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

Nov 07, 2020

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

Doing
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Heart
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Nov 07, 2020

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.

Every Day
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm not a health freak. I just work out every day.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don't.

Friends
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.

Grow
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Nov 07, 2020

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Father
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Nov 07, 2020

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort - I think it keeps you going.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.

Morning
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Nov 07, 2020

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called 'Equis.' And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, 'I'm home.' I felt really at peace here.

Nov 07, 2020

I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.

Nov 07, 2020

We're always looking over our shoulders, 'what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one - am I making the right career move?' When you're young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

Healthy Way
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Nov 07, 2020

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

College
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Nov 07, 2020

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

Nov 07, 2020

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Childhood
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Nov 07, 2020

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

Home
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Nov 07, 2020

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Doubt
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Nov 07, 2020

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone's religion or belief.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I've had no contact with my daughter for years. That's her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don't want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Negative
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't like freeloaders; I don't like people who are negative.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm a pretty tough guy, you know. I'm a pretty hard man. I've got a lot of compassion, but I don't waste time with people.

Cruel
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

Service
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Nov 07, 2020

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

Nov 07, 2020

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

Being
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Nov 07, 2020

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Everyone
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Nov 07, 2020

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

Poetry
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Nov 07, 2020

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

God
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Nov 07, 2020

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

Mind
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Nov 07, 2020

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

Nov 07, 2020

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

Job
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Nov 07, 2020

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

Laziness
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Nov 07, 2020

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Boring
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Nov 07, 2020

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Matter
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Down
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Nov 07, 2020

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Day
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Nov 07, 2020

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

All My Time
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Nov 07, 2020

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set.

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