Sreechinth C - When The Hannibal Speaks, The Lambs Wont Be Silent: Contemplative Quotes by Anthony Hopkins

When the HannibalSpeaks, the Lambs won't be Silent

~ Contemplative Quotesby Anthony Hopkins ~

Composer: Sreechinth C

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2016 Sreechinth C

DEDICATION

This book, When the Hannibal Speaks, theLambs won't be Silent:Contemplative Quotes by AnthonyHopkins is dedicated at the feet of Almighty.

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

- Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Sincerely showing thankfulness to all thosewho participated and supported directly and indirectly in therelease of this book.

INTRODUCTION

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins is one of thegreatest living actor and a charismatic personality. He is havingaround 50 year long film career and many international awards inhis name including academy award for best actor in the year 1991for his marvelous performance in the movie The Silence of theLambs, in which he played the role of Hannibal Lecter. Though hehas more than a dozen of acclaimed movies in his name, The Silenceof the Lambs is considered as one of his best.

Hannibal Lecter, a cannibalistic serialkiller and forensic psychiatrist, is a well known character createdby the novelist Thomas Harris. It received more life though movies,and it is considered that Anthony Hopkins is the actor who playedthe character to its highest peak of personality. At least by nowyou may had realized that the title of this book is crafted takinginto account of his role in the mentioned movie series.

Anthony Hopkins was not only a trained actorin film, television and stage, but also a composer and painter. Hehas a touch of literature and that you can see in hisquotations.

This book, When the Hannibal Speaks, theLambs won't be Silent: Contemplative Quotes by Anthony Hopkinscontains the sayings and quotes of Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins,which also includes his version of himself and life. Some of themare motivational and the book includes a few of his famous moviequotes too.

Read through this book and discover whetherthe lambs are silent...

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We are dying from over thinking. We areslowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think.Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's adeath trap.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoyit.

There is nothing to be scared of in movies.It's a bit scarier going on stage.

I became an actor because I didn't knowwhat else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.

Multiply it by infinity and take it to thedepths of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of whatI'm talking about.

You still wake up sometimes. You wake up inthe dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with anorchestra and try to impose himself too much.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't muchlike the idea of parents who interfere.

I am a bit of a solitude person - asolitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have anymajor friendships or relationships with people.

I love traveling. I like to keep moving. Ilove the big open spaces in America.

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

I always distrust the word art when it isapplied to acting.

If you're in a successful play and the playis working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it,the audiences respond well - it's a pleasure.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lotof weak spots: cookies, croissants.

I've reached a happy stage in my life - youcan call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm gladI'm not young anymore.

I don't have a vast longing for thestage.

Richard Burton came from the same town asme, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I thinkI've been very lucky.

Women never really care to face the truthwhen their hearts are involved.

I come from - I came from Wales, and it's astrong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. Peopledidn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get onwith it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time beingsoft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with -life's too short.

Working with Katherine Hepburn, she said tome, "Don't act." She said, "Read the lines. Just be. Just speak thelines." I said, "Okay." She said, "You look good. You got a goodpair of shoulders, you got a good head, good face."

I don't mind being a commodity. It's givenme a good life.

Non-expectation, non-acceptance because theexpectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have noexpectations.

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have alot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over thedesert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to thedialogue.

I've played a lot of parts. But I don'tlook at my feeling is that this is a job. It's given me a goodliving.

The reward is in the doing of it.

I found a way into the acting businessbecause I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and sothat's what I do. But I still feel like a bit of a stranger in itall. I've never really belonged anywhere.

I play piano and that's my love. I read andI paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creativelife. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in PortTalbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with hiswife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Notbecause of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was solimited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and Ithought becoming an actor would do that.

Certainty is the enemy of mankind. Ifyou're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you haveNazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guardedabout.

The trick is not to get too fanatical aboutgetting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask.What I try to do is just painting and sketching some of the soundswithout obliterating my own voice.

I've always liked to be a meat and potatoeskind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuffabout acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical.

When you're young, you're very insecure.And if I could learn, if I could revisit my own past I could say tomyself, don't think too much, just get on and do it.

When you're younger you have so many ideasabout yourself; everything is important. It's not when you lookback, nothing is that important. It's only life.

Oliver Stone is a great director and I'veseen many films over the years, but I try to create stuff out of myown imagination. I want to break all the rules and mess about withit and make a different movie just for the fun of it.

I'm always cast in these strange men...that's not me, really.

I would like to go back to Wales. I'mobsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream Iam back there.

Most of my last 30 years have been likethat. Results and manifestations of things I'd dreamed of as ayoung kid and wanted as a child and as a young man. I realized itmaybe 30 years ago. I thought, "This is unreal. This has happenedas I expected it to, as I'd pictured it." My whole life has beenlike that and I'm fascinated by that power that we all have. Thatwe create our lives as we go.

Once you accept the fact that there'snothing to fear, you drill into the primal oil well. I believe whenwe do things without fear, we can do anything. As long as you don'tworry about the consequences...

My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot ofweak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing meabout this, I tend to put it all down as habit or it's justacting.

I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road.I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including livinglife too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhereon time, I make sure I leave early enough.