In 1998, Anthony received the ShoWest Award for Actor of the Year at the ShoWest Convention, USA.
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In 2002, Anthony received the Master Screen Artist Tribute at the USA Film Festival.
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In 1994, Anthony won the SEFCA Award for Best Actor for his role in The Remains of the Day (1993).
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In 2003, Anthony received his Star on the Walk of Fame. It's located at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard.
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In 1995, Anthony won the Bronze Wrangler Award for Theatrical Motion Picture for the film Legends of the Fall (1994).
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In 1992, Anthony won a Saturn Award for Best Actor for: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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Anthony appeared in a TV commercial (voiceover) for Agilent Technologies in 1999.
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In 1992, Anthony narrated Jeff Wayne's musical version of Spartacus on a double-album.
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Anthony appeared in a TV commercial for Barclays Bank in 2000.
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In 2000, Anthony received $5,000,000 for his role in the film Mission: Impossible II (2000).
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Anthony earned $15,000,000 for his appearance in the film Hannibal (2001).
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Anthony earned $20,000,000 for his appearance in Red Dragon (2002).
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Anthony Hopkins: [On his most famous character, Dr. Hannibal Lecter]: I think he might be a very interesting person to have lunch with, provided that *you* weren't the lunch.
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Anthony Hopkins: [On becoming a U.S. citizen in 2000] America has been very generous to me, magnanimous really. I thought it would be good to give something back. It was a decision of the heart.
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Anthony Hopkins: To hell with this stupid show business, this ridiculous showbiz, this futile waste of life. I look back and see a desert wasteland. All those years spent in a fake environment. Everything was a fake.
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Anthony Hopkins: The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.
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Anthony Hopkins: (Interviewed on Inside the Actors Studio), I once asked a Jesuit priest what was the best short prayer he knew. He said, 'f**k it,' as in 'f**k it; it's in God's hands.'
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Anothony Hopkins: 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.
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Anthony Hopkins: [talking about Gary Oldman] He is just like I was at his age.
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Anthony is a Member of the RADA Council.
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Anthony is related to the poet William Butler Yeats on his mother's side of the family.
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Anthony is a noted piano virtuoso.
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Anthony is often compared with fellow Welshman Richard Burton.
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Anthony's parents were Richard Arthur and Muriel Hopkins.
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Anthony is 5'8½" tall.
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Anthony has been nominated for 6 Golden Globes as of 1998, but has never won.
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Anthony volunteers at the Ruskins School of Acting in Santa Monica, California, where he teaches everything from Shakespeare to scenes, theory, and monologues.
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Anthony received his Academy Award for The Silence of the Lambs eleven years to day of his father's death.
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Anthony passed on the role of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
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Anthony became a U.S. citizen on April 12, 2000, but is allowed to retain his British knighthood and the title of Sir.
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One of Anthony's greatest pleasures in past years on his frequent visits to the USA was to get in a car and drive across the country, enjoying its immensity as well as his own anonymity.
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Anthony conquered his alcoholic addiction in 1975.
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Anthony was knighted in the 1993 New Year Honors List.
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Anthony received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Wales on July 16, 1988.
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Anthony was awarded Commander, Order of the British Empire in 1987.
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Anthony has been married twice: Petronella Barker (1968-1972), and Jennifer Lynton (Jan. 13, 1973-April 30, 2002). Has one daughter with Barker.
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