Philip Anthony Hopkins movie quotes

“Responsibility! Duty! Honour! These are not mere virtues to which we must aspire! They are essential to every soldier, to every king!”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Odin

“Odin-You'll be a wise king.
Thor-There will never be a wiser king than you. Or a better father. I have much to learn. I know that now. One day, perhaps, I will make you proud.
Odin-You've already made me proud.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Odin
Chris Hemsworth - Thor

“Once, mankind accepted a simple truth: that they were not alone in this universe. Some worlds man believed home to their Gods. Others they knew to fear.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Odin

“We’ve managed to slip evolution’s leash now, haven’t we? We can cure any disease, keep even the weakest of us alive, and one fine day perhaps we shall even resurrect the dead, call forth Lazarus from his cave. Do you know what that means? It means that we’re done, that this is as good as we’re going to get.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Robert Ford

“I believed that stories helped us to ennoble ourselves, to fix what was broken in us, and to help us become the people we dreamed of being. Lies that told a deeper truth.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Robert Ford

“I read a theory once that the human intellect was like peacock feathers. Just an extravagant display intended to attract a mate. All of art, literature, a bit of Mozart, William Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and the Empire State Building. Just an elaborate mating ritual. Maybe it doesn’t matter that we have accomplished so much for the basest of...” (continue)(continue reading)
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Robert Ford

“We humans are alone in this world for a reason. We murdered and butchered anything that challenged our primacy.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Robert Ford

“An old friend once told me something that gave me great comfort. Something he had read. He said that Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin never died. They simply became music.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Robert Ford

“Even I fell into the most terrible of human traps...Trying to change what is already past.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Robert Ford

“You can’t play God without being acquainted with the devil.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Robert Ford

“Anne-Laura has come round to help you.
Anthony-I don’t need her or anyone else. I can manage very well on my own. I don’t need any help.”
Olivia Colman - Anne
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Anthony

“Why do you keep looking as if there’s something wrong? Everything is fine.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Anthony

“All dictatorships take away our freedom to choose. We both know that. Or reveal our own weaknesses.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Pope Benedict

“- Pope Benedict: This is your ego talking. You think you know better.
- Pope Francis: I'm Argentinian. How does an Argentinian kill himself? He climbs to the top of his ego, and jumps off.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Pope Benedict
Jonathan Pryce - Pope Francis

“- Pope Francis: Speaking English is exhausting.
- Pope Benedict: Terrible language - so many exceptions to every rule”
Jonathan Pryce - Pope Francis
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Pope Benedict

“- Pope Benedict: You talk about walls as if they are bad things. A house is built of walls. Strong walls.
- Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio: Ah... Did Jesus build walls? His face is a face of mercy. The bigger the sinner, the warmer the welcome. Mercy is the dynamite that blows down walls.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Pope Benedict
Jonathan Pryce - Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio

“You caught me because we're very much alike. Without our imaginations, we'd be like all those other poor... dullards. Fear... is the price of our instrument. But I can help you bear it.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Hannibal Lecter

“- Young Student: You say you want to end the war, so why don't you?
- Richard M. Nixon: Change always comes slowly. I pulled out more than half the troops. I'm trying to cut the military budget for the first time in 30 years. I want a volunteer army. But it's also a question of American credibility, our position in the world.”
Joanna Going - Young Student
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“These are troubled times. Without leaders, chaos reigns.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Sir Edmund Burton

“Knowledge is pain.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Ted Crawford

“- Carr Gomm: Can you imagine the kind of life he must have had?
- Frederick Treves: Yes, I think I can.
- Carr Gomm: I don't think so. No one could possibly imagine it! I don't believe any of us can!”

Sir John Gielgud - Carr Gomm
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Frederick Treves

“- Harry: Well done, Jack. Life must go on.
- Jack Lewis: I don't know whether it must, Harry, but it certainly does.”

Michael Denison - Harry Harrington
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Jack Lewis

“One hundred billion trillion planets in the cosmos. You want to know, don't you, why they keep coming here?”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Sir Edmund Burton

“- Mrs. Treves: I'm very pleased to meet you, Mr. Merrick.
- John Merrick: I'm very pleased...
[John begins to cry]
- Frederick Treves: What is it, John? What's the matter?
- John Merrick: It's just that I-I'm not used to being treated so well by a beautiful woman...”
Hannah Gordon - Mrs. Treves
Sir John Hurt - John Merrick
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Frederick Treves

“Asgard is not a place, it's a people. And its people need your help.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Odin