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Anthony Hopkins Quotes

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.

Anthony Hopkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: welsh
Birth: December 31, 1937

Topics

Walk Saying Stand Someone Doing Way

When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid by the family my mother worked for. It was hard being the only one, and I faced a fair amount of racist and classist bullying there.

Jesmyn Ward

Family Mother Girl Bullying School

Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

John C. Maxwell

Change Good People Action Process

In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on suing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.

Meat Loaf

War Me Management Electricity Early

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

Meg Tilly

Life Children Acting First Whole

Now, it's weird not to have gay characters on a show.

Megan Mullally

Weird Gay Now Show Characters

Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.

Matthew Simpson

History Men Past World Personal

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

Ang Lee

Culture Care America Two Chinese

My grandmother, Nina Eaton, founded United Cerebral Palsy. At the time that my father was born with it, there were no resources for people with the condition. So my grandmother and grandfather, who lived in Brooklyn, tried to reach out for some type of resource or support, and people just told them to institutionalize my father.

Meredith Eaton

Father Time Support People Reach

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

Sitting Bull

Father Great Wish Our Tribal Any

Now, as Global Ambassador for Starlight Children's Foundation, which brightens the lives of poorly children, I visit hospitals and tell stories to the young patients. Sometimes I read. Sometimes I draw.

Tony DiTerlizzi

Children Foundation Young Sometimes

I will never be the comic that apologizes for telling a joke.

Tony Rock

Will Never Joke Telling Comic

Good directing is good writing and good casting.

Robert Zemeckis

Good Writing Good Writing Directing