Anthony Hopkins Quotes

I like to be in character a good few hours before I arrive for filming.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

When I'm playing a character, I don't wear perfume.

And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.

She [Susan Lucci] was extraordinary. She wouldn't look at the scene until you walked in to rehearse it. It was amazing to me. That's the impression I got anyway.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

I would like to, in some capacity, observe how Tom Cruise goes about his business when it comes to making a movie and how he behaves on set and how he interacts with the crew because from everything that I've heard, it is the template for professionalism and just the way to conduct yourself as an actor.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.

I have no idea what 'method actor' means.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.

I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

Actors seem brave and unpredictable, but they're spontaneous as a tax return.

I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.