I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship … - Anthony Hopkins

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Anthony Hopkins

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.

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I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.

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

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We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

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

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That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

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