Sir Phillip Anthony Hopkins is Welsh actor, director and movie producer. Hopkins claimed recognition in the film ‘The Lion in Winter’. In the 70s, Richard Attenborough stated Anthony Hopkins as The Greatest Actor of his Generation.

Check out these inspirational Anthony Hopkins quotes on life and success!

Here are 62 Motivational Anthony Hopkins Quotes:

1. “Life is tough, but you have to just get out of bed. Get out and do it.” – Anthony Hopkins

2. “The reward is in the doing of it.” – Anthony Hopkins

3. “If you don’t follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.” – Anthony Hopkins

4. “Today is the tomorrow I was worried about yesterday.” – Anthony Hopkins

5. “I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day, I do three minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka, and smoke a cigarette.” – Anthony Hopkins

6. “I’m fascinated by the dream world we live in, in our dreaming, sleep, dreaming, and that moment of pre-sleep when the subconscious mind whirls up.” – Anthony Hopkins

7. “I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music, and I compose music, and I write, and I sell paintings.” – Anthony Hopkins

8. “Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.” – Anthony Hopkins

9. “You are not responsible for saving people.” – Anthony Hopkins

10. “Don’t look for the results, don’t live in the payoff. Live in the moment, which is a spiritual principle.” – Anthony Hopkins

 

11. “The whole point of courage is to overcome your fear. That’s the interesting thing when courage bleeds through the fear.” – Anthony Hopkins

12. “You reach a point in life where you just think, ‘Show up, do your job, make sure the cheque’s on the way,’ and that’s it. I’m not hungry to do anything more, really.” – Anthony Hopkins

13. “Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed. You’re finished.” – Anthony Hopkins

14. “When you’re young, you’re very insecure, and if I could learn, if I could revisit my own past, I could say to myself, ‘Don’t think too much, just get on and do it.’” – Anthony Hopkins

15. “There is no shortcut to happiness. You have to live your life.” – Anthony Hopkins

16. “I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It’s part of my nature. I wouldn’t be an actor if I wasn’t.” – Anthony Hopkins

17. “I don’t like freeloaders. I don’t like people who are negative.” – Anthony Hopkins

18. “I like to take it easy.” – Anthony Hopkins

19. “The truth is that you’re not for everyone.” – Anthony Hopkins

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21. “Stop showing up for people who are indifferent to your presence.” – Anthony Hopkins

22. “If you don’t go when you want to go, when you do go, you’ll find you’ve gone.” – Anthony Hopkins

23. “In certain moments of our lives, we get little signals, little flashes that say, ‘It’s yours if you want it.’” – Anthony Hopkins

24. “At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.” – Anthony Hopkins

25. “I’m very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.” – Anthony Hopkins

26. “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.” – Anthony Hopkins

27. “People don’t always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don’t advance in life.” – Anthony Hopkins

28. “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.” – Anthony Hopkins

29. “I love life because what more is there?” – Anthony Hopkins

30. “The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact, is bad acting.” – Anthony Hopkins

31. “Life is so short, and such glorious images in the world, and such horror as well, but I want to see it all. So I moved out of my comfort zone.” – Anthony Hopkins

 

32. “You look closely enough, you’ll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.” – Anthony Hopkins

33. “If I spent all my time criticizing myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorize ’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.” – Anthony Hopkins

34. “We all sell ourselves to some degree, I think.” – Anthony Hopkins

35. “I visualized a lot of things happening to me because I was a lonely kid because I didn’t understand anything about school.” – Anthony Hopkins

36. “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.” – Anthony Hopkins

37. “I don’t want to be anything else other than what I am. I can say that with passion. No regrets.” – Anthony Hopkins

38. “My philosophy is, it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything, and it makes life so much easier.” – Anthony Hopkins

39. “We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation.” – Anthony Hopkins

40. “I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.” – Anthony Hopkins

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42. “I was bullied as a boy, lots of kids are, but hopefully, most of us get on with our lives and grow up.” – Anthony Hopkins

43.  “I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand mad men.” – Anthony Hopkins

44. “Once you accept the fact that there’s nothing to fear, you drill into the primal oil well.” – Anthony Hopkins

45. “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.” – Anthony Hopkins

46. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Anthony Hopkins

47. “Living with reality is a very good trick. It gives you tremendous freedom, and it changes the structure of molecules of your soul by living through reality because you don’t expect anything anymore, which is a weird paradox.” – Anthony Hopkins

48. “Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness, and light, and everything, and that makes for a full life.” – Anthony Hopkins

49. “Guilt is the thief of life.” – Anthony Hopkins

50. “Stop hard conversations with people who don’t want to change.” – Anthony Hopkins

51. “I believe when we do things without fear, we can do anything. As long as you don’t worry about the consequences.” – Anthony Hopkins

 

52. “We get questions in our head and little voices that put us down when we were kids, so get over that. That’s all I’ve had to do.” – Anthony Hopkins

53. “I’m interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometimes, nightmare quality of our lives.” – Anthony Hopkins

54. “Getting old ain’t for the faint of heart.” – Anthony Hopkins

55. “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.” – Anthony Hopkins

56. “It’s not your job to exist for people and give them your life, little by little, moment after moment.” – Anthony Hopkins

57. “My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.” – Anthony Hopkins

58. “I’ve reached a happy stage in my life. You can call it happy, but I have no expectations anymore.” – Anthony Hopkins

59. “Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.” – Anthony Hopkins

60. “I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.” – Anthony Hopkins

61. “It’s very difficult to liberate yourself from what you’ve learned. You know it’s almost impossible because you learn in order to survive.” – Anthony Hopkins

62. “Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.” – Anthony Hopkins

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