Sir Anthony Hopkins Biography

On himself:

"I was lousy in school. A real screw 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."

On becoming a US citizen:

"America has been very generous to me, magnanimous really. I thought it would be good to give something back. It was a decision of the heart."

On his most famous character:

"I think he might be a very interesting person to have lunch with, provided that *you* weren't the lunch."

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

On show business:

"To hell with this stupid show business, this ridiculous showbiz, this futile waste of life. I look back and see a desert wasteland. All those years spent in a fake environment. Everything was a fake."