I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation in life... And I wanted to write ….

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 brai….

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..

When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only….

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway..

Most of my last 30 years have been like that. Results and manifestations of things I'd dreamed of as a young kid and wanted as a child and as a young….

I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance..

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

When you are at the right age to play Hamlet you are still to young and immature to play it. It is much later, when you get the life experience and t….

People ask me how did you choose the part and how did you prepare for this work? I just learned the lines and showed up; I don't know what else to sa….

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

I'd like to wake up and look like Brad Pitt in the morning, but I don't. I look in the mirror, and I see me..

I do my job, and I do what I’m paid to do and I’m always prepared. I prepare by learning the text so well that when I show up, I’m relaxed and the pe….

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..

At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day..

I think doubt is a very healthy way to live..

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly..

Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is some….

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..

I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream..

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