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someone needs to edit the main section (the first one) (i cant seem to do it)

Red Dragon was a PREQUEL to silence of the lambs not a sequel

Category:Expatriate actors in the United States

Why does this category contain Canadian and Australian actors, but no Brits such as Hopkins? Is it because, having acquired US citizenship, he is no longer considered an expatriate, even though he retains UK citizenship? But there must be hundreds of other British actors who never took out US citizenship but still spent the greater part of their lives in Hollywood. -- Jack of Oz [your turn] 02:23, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think he is a Knight of the Realm any more. When he took US citizenship in 2000, part of the oath he took was "I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of whom or which I heretofor been a subject or citizen". No matter what he or the Authorities say, he has renounced his title. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.79.80.231 (talk) 21:37, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's just patently false, the US has long allowed dual-citizenship, and Sir Anthony himself still considers himself British.--Allthestrongbowintheworld (talk) 18:54, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a question of dual-citizenship. What is patently obvious is that he has sworn (before a number of witnesses) - "I absolutely and entirely renounce .. all allegiance .. to any .. state .. which I heretofor been a subject or citizen" - in otherwords, he renounced all allegiance to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. How does that square with "still considers himself British"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.139.245.129 (talk) 21:15, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

He wanted US citizenship, simple as really. People swear to tell the truth in court, that doesn't prevent perjury. The oath is symbolic, nothing more. He is a British citizen, has not renounced that fact and still considers himself as such, regardless of whatever the United States forces people to say in citizenship ceremonies.--Allthestrongbowintheworld (talk) 00:27, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If you voluntarily become an American citizen, you are an American, full-stop — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.176.210.214 (talk) 13:53, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed

A strange sentence

The article contains the following text: Has a wax replica of himself sitting in Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Amsterdam. Is that taken to mean that Hopkins owns such a replica? Or that there is such a wax replica in Madam Tussauds' Wax Museum? The question is "who"? This also needs a citation. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 21:34, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agnosticism, atheism

So, apparently, he made some agnostic pronouncements about God and Tinkerbell ("I don't know what I believe") in January 2011, and then declared himself to believe in God and to have done so since the mid 1970s - in February 2011. Both in connection with his role as an exorcist in The Rite, which premiered then. I don't think this indicates that he changed his mind or "renounced atheism" between January and February; rather, either he casually contradicts himself, or some of the sources are misrepresenting his statements. Also, all the sources on the issue seem to be of rather poor quality - blogs, religious websites etc., so the best thing would probably be to delete all of the stuff about it. --91.148.130.233 (talk) 00:43, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

about Antony Hopkins' birth day

Anthony Hopkins Himself said he was born in 1939 on Craig Ferguson Show 17 July 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-3UWQ_FY_0 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mainthinker (talk • contribs) 18:50, 16 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Small Screen Debut

The Roles section states that he made his 'small screen debut' in 1967. However he had a minor role as a doctor in an episode of the television series The Man in Room 17 in 1965. This is noted on the Imdb page The Man in Room 17 - A Minor Operation The episode is available on DVD in the UK. Exbeardy (talk) 22:11, 21 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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