Anthony Hopkins Quotes

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

I'm not really an actress.

I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.

I have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale.

My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don't belong, that our generation doesn't belong.

I'm someone who's experienced impostor syndrome - as I think a lot of people have with their careers, especially when they pursue what they're passionate about, because they want to be good at it. I've experienced that as a gay man; I've experienced that as a cook, as a gallery director, as a student of psychology.

I was having a dilemma whether I wanted to return to acting at all because I was coming from this sort of agency-less childhood career, and I'd never made the choice to go into acting.

But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

I'm not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.

I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.

I've never really fit in.

I didn't feel like I fitted in. I felt like I was a hindrance to A-ha.

When someone is looking at me, I feel they are looking at someone standing behind me, not at me.

I don't really feel like I belong anywhere.

In my early years, I couldn't find a community. I couldn't find anybody like me. I felt so isolated. There was nothing but shame and loneliness.

I don't necessarily feel like I'm American. I wouldn't know what that feels like.

I always felt like a misfit.

You can be in the league and still feel like you're not in the league. That was the point I was at when I left Toronto.

I did a play in Bolton - 'Billy Liar.' I turned it down at first but then thought, 'What the hell else can I do? I'm no good at anything else.'

I was always introduced as the Beatles photographer and I gave it up in the end. I was so unsure of myself. Am I good or am I just the Beatles photographer? People were not interested in what I did before. I could not stand it any more.

As an actor, you always feel like you're not going to work again. You're always unsure about how things are going to work out, and you start thinking you're going to just fade off into the distance.

I think everyone goes through it in university, figuring out whether or not they're doing the right course. I guess I'm the same, but in music.

I have absolutely no sense of my success whatsoever, in fact, I only have a sense of not doing what I intended to do. I don't know who I am.