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Movie/TV title: The Lion in Winter (1968)
Character name: Prince Richard
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Prince Richard: I don't care what you offer Philip; I don't care what plans you make. I'll have the Aquitaine, and Alais, and the crown. I'll not give-up one to get the other. I won't trade-off Alais or the Aquitaine to that walking pustule! No, your loving son will not.

Prince Richard: You're so deceitful you can't ask for water when you're thirsty. We could tangle spiders in the webs you weave.

Movie/TV title: Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Character name: Hannibal Lecter
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Hannibal: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

Hannibal: You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

Hannibal Lecter: Well, Clarice - have the lambs stopped screaming?

Movie/TV title: Howard's End (1992)
Character name: Henry J. Wilcox
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Henry: Don't take up a sentimental attitude toward the poor. See that she doesn't Margaret. The poor are poor. One is sorry for them, but there it is.

Margaret: What did Dolly mean about Howards End?
Henry Wilcox: Mm? My poor Ruth, during her last days, scribbled your name on a piece of paper. Knowing her not to be herself, I set it aside. Didn't do wrong, did?

Movie/TV title: Shadowlands (1993)
Character name: Jack Lewis
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Jack: That's not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me.

Jack: I love you, Joy. I love you so much. You made me so happy. I didn't know I could be so happy.

Jack Lewis: Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Movie/TV title: The Remains of the Day (1993)
Character name: James Stevens
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James: Do you know what I am doing, Miss Kenton? I am placing my mind elsewhere while you chatter away.

James Stevens: I don't believe a man can consider himself fully content until he has done all he can to be of service to his employer.

James Stevens: If two members of staff have to fall in love and decide to get married, there's nothing one can say. But what I do find a major irritation are those persons who are simply going from post to post looking for romance.

Movie/TV title: Nixon (1995)
Character name: Richard M. Nixon
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Nixon: They look at you and see what they want to be. They look at me and see what they are.

Richard Nixon: Presidents don't threaten. They don't have to.
Richard M. Nixon: They can't impeach me for bombing Cambodia. The president can bomb anybody he likes.

Movie/TV title: Meet Joe Black (1998)
Character name: Willian Parrish
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William Parrish: What a glorious night. Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly perfect memory. Sometimes we had our ups and downs. But we're all together, and you're mine for a night, and I'm going to break precedent and tell you my one candle wish: that you would have a life as lucky as mine, where you can wake up one morning and say, "I don't want anything more."

William: Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back.

Movie/TV title: The Mask of Zorro (1998)
Character name: Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
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Don Diego de la Vega: You have passion, Alejandro, and your skill is growing. But to enter Montero's world, I must give you something which is completely beyond your reach.
Alejandro: Ah, yes? And what is that?
Don Diego de la Vega: Charm.

Don Diego de la Vega: There is a saying, a very old saying: when the pupil is ready the master will appear.

Movie/TV title: The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
Character name: Burt Monro
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Burt Munro: We did it, Tom. She's the World's Fastest Indian!

Burt Munro: If you don't follow your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.

Movie/TV title: Beowulf (2007)
Character name: King Hrothgar
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Beowulf: How many monsters must I slay? Grendel's mother, father, Grende's uncle? Must I hack down a whole family tree of demons?
King Hrothgar: She is the last of them. Whith her gone, demonkind will slip back into the darkness from whence it came.

King Hrothgar: When I am gone, Beowulf, son of Edgethow, shall be king!

King Hrothgar: She's not my curse, not anymore.

Anthony Hopkins Quotes

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"Im an American Idol addict!" - Anthony Hopkins on an MTV red carpet interview

"Simon, because hes so brutally honest, theres no political correctness with him. He says it as it is." - Anthony Hopkins on the MTV red carpet interview, when asked who is his favorite judge on American Idol

I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night. (About his Hannibal Lector mask)

I was lousy in school. Real screwed 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.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, of course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

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

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

I love life because what more is there.

I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.

I never make conscious decisions.

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

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

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

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

I'm the slowest driver in the world.

I've got a great sense of humor.

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

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

This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

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Quote: "Sir Anthony Hopkins is in the recording studio with Amy Winehouse ... and we are hoping that next week Sir Brad and all the Pitt family will be performing The Sound of Music at the Brit awards."

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