Anthony Hopkins CBE actor

Anthony Hopkins was born in the Welsh town of Port Talbot just like the man who inspired him to become an actor Richard Burton he's struggled at school but in his twenties was understudying Laurence Olivier at the National Theatre a news 30s was a major television star thanks to a BBC adaptation of war and peace Hopkins would be called the best stage act of his generation but fell increasing in love with film and out of love with the theater famously walking out of a 1973 production of Macbeth midway through its run you got big roles at the National Coriolanus and then the big walkout from Macbeth oh yes my bad years why were they bad years I was a bad boy I was I was trouble I was rebel I was discontented I was angry and fed up and hated being part of an establishment and hated doing Shakespeare was all my own making I was the enemy within you know I was on my own me because nobody else's fault everyone did their best to you know cater to my needs were you drinking at that time oh yes but all actors drink I was just a an episode in my life that's over and done with us at boring episodes like but that I didn't I don't think it helped but I I just I was Restless I wanted to get out and I was I was frightened I was I was afraid I was doing taking on this monumental part and I never pretended that I had the courage to do these great parts like Macbeth and King Lear and I never said I could do that me I never thought I'd had the courage to do them takes a lot of courage didn't I didn't have that I didn't have the sustaining power I didn't have the discipline to learn verse and I just couldn't get it and it got from bad to worse and I think I reached a crisis of nerves I lost my nerve and I just one day walked out because I couldn't screaming voice of John Dexter I one day I thought that's it I'm off and I got busting left and I never looked back I'm not proud of any of that but I'm glad I did it I made my amends I wrote back to Olivia and said you know I'm sorry I did that but I I had to go and no regrets no shame but that it's over and done with and but I I had to do it otherwise I would have Anthony Hopkins didn't just leave Macbeth he left Britain and spent years living in America carving out a career as a movie star how did you get into into films rather than the theater your first film of course was the lion in winter wasn't years how well I make a startling admission I mean I came to a startling conclusion a few months ago that I really always wanted to do films and down.i I'd spent so much time doing what I thought other people expected me to do you know and we'd know I think we tend to do that a lot of time and uh I made up my mind a few weeks ago that I should months ago that I never really I really enjoy films I have a marvelous time I love filming and I love television and and I like the theater but and I'm sure I will go back to the theater but I I don't know I I hate it when it goes wrong and you just have to go on stage night after night after night when it's wrong when it's been badly conceived and I've had a couple of negative experiences that way in recent years I'm pretty firm the way I work now and I have a talk with the director before we start asking him how he works and I'll tell him how I work and and I expect him to do his homework because I'm expected to do mine before I used to politely stand there and take it you know take nonsense and now I don't do it because it's my job and if I'm not satisfied I walk away and I will always walk away if I'm not satisfied because I don't see why I should put myself through the mill for the sake of incompetence and when I don't it's probably very offensive to some people but they probably don't like it but I had an experience recently over the last two and a half years I won't mention names I won't mention the play but it was a night I mean a director who hadn't prepared a thing and it was a big big play and two weeks rehearsal I don't want to go over all grant but I made the mistake of being politely accepting you know accepting this man's incompetence until it was too late and then I blow up there's an enormous explosion so now I've learned from that lesson hopefully not to put up with it to be honest because it's only dishonestly that allows one to put up with nonsense and you know incompetence so I been told maybe sound terribly pompous but I now I just say no I won't put up with it you know I'm not gonna do that when you've left Britain after your years in the National Theatre did people accuse you of deserting British theatre of selling out really - oh yeah - money into stardom yes I suppose I have sold out and whatever it means no I suppose I'm going through a kind of period of change myself I I don't know I I find it more important for me to enjoy my life to to get on with my life my living aside from work I found that nose to the grindstone that Jude in the theater all the time taking everything so seriously was making me in a way as no I suppose uptight and neurotic in it and I left the tears I went off to Israel and I did a film qb7 and I made off to America and I feel more at ease I feel more confident for myself I just feel happier happier than I've ever been because there's no panic I'm not you know if I do or sell oh I hope I do it well of course I haven't the great need to play Shakespeare having a great need to do classics I'm no great need or urgency to do it it's no play you know Sophocles or you know if I played I played it know if I don't I don't it's very good opportunity for me to play Othello I feel free and I didn't in the theater I just didn't so I suppose I've sold out I just didn't feel free I felt hemmed in and cooped up maybe I don't have the nature of the discipline I got bored very quickly to fight that propensity for boredom Hopkins has taken on roles that are intense and challenging one such example was the schizophrenic ventriloquist in Richard Attenborough's 1978 film magic why do you think I blow the whistle because I was leaving because you're jealous whoa smack oh I did it because I could see why you stopped me because you good look at him he still doesn't understand better stand kid wanna eat you with an explanation ever since we got together my leg Lafayette lets you share the limelight there's one thing about me I'm big panting are you late today when I begged pleaded another block behind and you guys were all over me Wow back tour it I'm boring you please walk around I don't care that's don't started on me please don't worsen I took a failure with a charmer lucky to get Nixon I made a skyrocket it's now gonna be on her it's gonna stay you and me it's me and you very very chilling film as I said um in fact what's remarkable about it was in you did your own vent working that didn't you yes yeah who taught you this man called Dennis Hallward in America and the man called Michael Bailey taught me the magic tricks I only learned a few but he he taught me the basics what about the event they'll first of all how difficult is it to just throw your voice like that without moving it looks as they say well I found it very easy maybe because I'm an actor and you know you have to keep your voice flexible and I was willing to learn and I decided that the only way I could do it was to you know enjoy it and I think a mimic as well so I found it fairly easy and I had a good teacher maybe I was a good student can you still do it yes yes okay for the words you can't say bottle of beer that's the classic way da-da-da-da-da-da-da there it's the pee sounds and F sounds and B sounds all those post of sounds you know may have to use the lips so you translate them into F Samsung is to the same instead of fantastic fantastic what about the tricks the little sort of magic tricks that you had to learn because the guy in fact did a magic acts as well as the vent acts in the movie yes well Michael Michael Bailey taught me the basic magic preset couldn't handle card so he taught me in one hand shuffles and cuts and also the Fanning and a coin trick which is basically this as a classic just call the French drop and it's that's so you see and there it is but there's I enjoyed learning them I play the piano so I'm I'm able to yes I can still do it yeah now you have to learn Anna you mentioned that there's all made easier for you because you've had this gift of mimicry yes now have you always had this have you ever said yes used to take of what schoolteachers schoolteachers if there's my only sort of weapon really because I was know I was not too sharp at school I didn't like Authority especially schoolteachers so I always had to go with them to memory and then later on and when I became an actor I always had to go directors so I used to be a very good movie sometimes directors I wasn't too happy with do you use it as a weapon did you I used to but no I use it out of affection now you do and I yes you do updates being said of you in fact you won the best mimic session in the business so you specialize in doing the acting nights don't you yes yes are you going to do I love Linux well let's start with them well everybody does Gielgud don't they oh yes to be or not to be that is the question but it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing and to die to Sleep No More what's that Olivier doing the same well to be or not to be that is the question whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them to die to Sleep No More and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is can you do one of my favorites the Ralph to be or not to be that is the question whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing one you a profit actually before we came on not her James Mason to be here or not to be there's nobler in the mind the slings and arrows or to take arms against a sea you pick up like a tape recorder to me yes I finally could play back most people do to them yeah what you mean do I have to listen or study yes no they come by accident or sometimes listening to somebody else who may sound like I remember God Michael York who sounds a little bit like James Mason I got it by listening to Michael under and I got the James Mason through him more you know the Alec Guinness actually was reading a preface in the book about Alec Guinness had written and suddenly his voice came to me and suddenly it all sounded rather like that you know Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy no but I so I got the Alec Guinness as well yeah I didn't hardly remember yeah I used to miss one I used motive affection I don't use not is your hope again now you're making a film which won't see free from uracil called the Elephant Man which is a rather strange story would you would you tell us about it yes this is he's a very touching story about a man called John medic who was so seriously deformed I didn't know what the natives disease was but he had a very large head and the one side of his body totally deformed and he was a sideshow freak and he was cruelly beaten and treated very badly he was born like this and the part I play is dr. Frederick Treves and Jeeves found him in the circus in decide show and took him back to the London hospital and kept him there and he met tremendous opposition from the Board of Governors of the hospital but john merrick could speak and he could read and he could write and he became a centerpiece for society in london this is about the 1880s and princes are visiting and queen victoria sent a telegram to Treves congratulating him on his humanitarianism and medic died I think in his 20s he suffocated really he couldn't sleep on his back because the weight of the head so he's to sleep sitting up it really is a tremendous script is one of the best ones of it it's a very touching story one of Hopkins biggest films after the Elephant Man involved another intense character Captain Bligh in the bounty Hollywood's 1984 version of the famous naval mutiny story this script is a more accurate version a more historically accurate than the other two films we're not trying to sort of see the march on the other two films but it is more historically accurate Bligh wasn't the sadistic monster that Charles Laughton brilliantly created but he was a great seaman great navigate here is Cook's navigator on the Pacific voyages bad-tempered no sense of humor but a just man not an unjust man can I have a word with you I'm busy is it important I think yes be brief William about your decision to go round the horn William not sir not captain William I don't think the men will have it oh the men won't have it are they in charge of the bounty they might be if you insist again would you repeat that please the men might be in charge what are you threatening me with it's not a threat it's a warning old there are rumblings are there I know there is fear around the horn is the easiest way the better way and that is how we would go anything more don't put atoms under the lash he was insubordinate cowardly an insubordinate you frightened the man I did not put that fear there he did so he will be lashed and we would go round the horn you frightened the girl on the whole mr. Christian he won't cover him Sir we're shooting the storm scene we're at the Bounty's attempting to go around the horn so we've got both on rockers the interiors on rockers we're all beginning to feel seasick really because they they do rock one of the answers were seasick last week and we've got about 50 tons of water I don't know if we're gonna use the lot today so we walk over to Tom and there are costumes Captain Bligh may have been a monster in the eyes of some but there was nothing compared to the character that in 1991 would transform Antony Hopkins career forever that was of course dr. Hannibal Lecter in the Silence of the Lambs the park turned Hopkins from a star into a superstar his mesmerizing performance won him that year's Oscar for the Best Lead II actor and the very next day he made this appearance on the wagon show welcome live from the st. James's Club La cuddly cannibal Anthony Hopkins I'm Anthony welcome and congratulations thank you today now I haven't seen the movie but we're you good it's okay what do you mean you haven't seen it yes look I read the book were you good in that you did I was good in the book that's good in the book I was through me yeah how do you feel this morning well still baffled though I'm coming down off cloud 9 a bit now I'm just feeling still can't believe it that I got this thing it's a wonderful honor I'm looking forward to coming home back to England I was astounded at the at the Oscar ceremony when they called my name I I thought they were going to call Nick Nolte you know so it was a heady experience it was like a dream I knew I was gonna wake up any minute and I didn't know what to say to anyone I didn't know how to thank and it all went out of my head have you spoken to your mom yet yeah I phoned her I thought it from the Academy how from the press room and she was staying with some friends of ours even Jean Williams and chillin Toni and I found out I think they're all sipping the champagne and getting really truly plastered I believe I think they're all sort of over the moon I was just I didn't know what I was doing I was just uh I didn't have figured I didn't know where I was done I was just so stunned by it all I really didn't expect it although during the ceremony when Billy Crystal was making those kind of comments you know and coming with a mask dressed as Hannibal Lecter I wondered if I had a better chance and I still said no if they'll give it to the knick knology whose good wonderful actor but I'm I'm glad they gave it to me anyway yeah well what's that you've got on the table in front of you this is what the orange juice is because that's the Oscar yeah that's the Oscar be careful now because I understand that the I want their cheaply made in little chip if you let it drop yes he's just having it bends you know no it's a great it's a great piece of work I said it so it's faced it's very heavy it's a very heavy it hasn't been a bad year for you I mean you've got the BAFTA Awards the other weekend and now you've got you've got this what he didn't expect that either yeah I think you the reason you didn't expect it presumably was in in all modesty is because you're the third Britain in succession to actually win the Oscar for Best Actor Daniel day-lewis and then last year Jeremy Irons and now you I mean that's the unexpected element isn't it well it just goes to show so much for you know it's the tremendous generosity of America they are most generous people one could imagine you know they they don't seem to have they'll hold their punches when they want you to have something they'll give it to you it I think they just it's fantastic you know they they know no bounds with generosity and I was of course I expected it maybe just slightly political thing that they would give it to an American but when they gave it to me I mean I was so shocked and that goes that shows what how generous the Americans are they're amazing people and they were encouraging me right the way through you know saying you're gonna get it you're gonna get it I said don't tell me that is he gonna get it we want you to get it I mean I was there are amazing people I think it's a great privilege being here it's all the more remarkable and you the fact that the film was released in America before last year's Oscars ceremony so one would have thought that you no matter how good it was they would have forgotten about it yeah well I guess that goes with the nature of the book because it's a in written book and Ted tallies amazing screenplay and then you get a combination like Jonathan Demi as a director and you put a cup of people like me yeah the actors sort of showed up and did their bit you know but it was a when you get a good script like Ted Terry's script screenplay based on a sensational book you know that you are you have a good chance of it being a good success it doesn't always work but I sensed it was going to be a big box office hit because the book was such a top bestseller and so we had a good combination going in but you know you can always make mistakes but I'm glad it proved to be a very successful film and I'm glad to be sitting here with mr. Oscar I never imagined I'd have one of these can you explain how how the the character of Hannibal Lecter such a character manages to hold such a sway and the public's imagination even the the the Academy voters imagination or or memory over such a long period yeah well I I don't know I don't have any psychological theories about it but I think what it is in the old buting the beast syndrome or the old Beauty and the Beast theme I mean is a man who has a potential for love strangely enough in his own dark way in his own strange way and and yet he's a man who's trapped in the monstrous brain like Quasimodo was trapped in them you know it deformed and tragic body and I think Hannibal Lecter is trapped in this distorted and extraordinary mind and will never be able to get out of it but he has a human capacity for understanding a tremendous capacity for understanding and he understands Clarice Starling Jodie Foster and when he she confronts him I think he admires her and he loves her in the way and he would never harm her if he ever got out but you can't let this man out because he's a lethal killing machine I guess that's something that maybe an audience recognizes or in the book that made him so popular because there is that potential there hidden deep down and I guess I suppose audiences or readers respond deep in themselves in a way I don't want to make it sound heavy going but I think that's what it is as you asked me that's my fear yeah well one of one of the reasons that I'm interviewing you so far away is because quite frankly I'm after that movie I've fairly apprehensive of you and I imagine that most people wouldn't really want to sit beside you at dinner were they no they I'm no they all get up and leave when I going to read some people just kind of for me no I'd say people people don't really start in any different way young light of the moment vegetarian is there a sequel plan to this surely there must be well Thomas Harris is writing the book now I believe so they tell me and Jonathan Demi is waiting with bated breath for the screenplay and the book to come out and Jodie Foster said to me there and I should have got to do the second one so I hope we do I don't know where it's going to take place or what shape the story is gonna be but it'd be interesting to do it again I hope in the not-too-distant future none I think that's it I don't want to go on playing men like this but I mean it was the highlight of my acting life I suppose to get apart like that when I read it I thought this is sensational part of a lifetime and I'd like to have one more crack at him you know well look I'm sure it will be a few days more before the full realization sets in to do enjoy the enormous success I'm sure every producer in Hollywood's beating a path to your door we wish you continued success and of course the congratulations of everybody here to Anthony Hopkins Thank You Terry that Oscar win did trigger an incredible run of award-winning films that further confirmed Hopkins reputation as one of our greatest screen actors here he is discussing one such role with Jonathan Ross but there were a few things you do in Howards End which struck me as being not only brilliant and very moving but also I can't imagine they were in the script in particular the character you play mr. Wilcox yeah there are two events in the movie when he's talking about something shameful in his past and both times he does not wish to be looked upon he doesn't wanna make eye contact with his wife he kind of hides his face away do you remember that yeah Henry look at me so you were that woman's lover with your usual delicacy yes I was when Wayne please ten years ago I'm sorry ten years ago I don't know maybe I'd seen it in the movie somewhere I think Charles Laughton did it in Hunchback of not to Dharma something in his face may have been I think it was that maybe I stole it it's good piece to steal he's ugly I am and he put his for you I think I stole that it's a wonderful moment and they really kind of break so as well because oh and then he breaks down doesn't he at the end have you any investor you couldn't bear to be seen crying yes showing of emotion I think that's why I have a lot in common with these guys I don't like bearing emotion much maybe it's a British thing maybe it's a male thing I don't like it I don't like displays of tears and you know I can imagine you must feel quite uncomfortable on Oscar night they are guarding I can barely watch my calm water Howards End and how he got into his part also came up in this very normal interview from 1993 a year that saw the release of two of Hopkins best love films the remains of the day and Shadowlands another film that that one of your more recent ones Howard Zinn how did you get a handle on the character you played in that it was the moustache did it yeah I said I went to the makeup room and they said would you wear a moustache nasai simple haven't grown one no she ball I got one for you I saw okay well let's put it on and put it on nice and there's the band there's the man and it made me feel like my grandfather my father's father was a strict Victorian and I looked at it in the mirror and I thought that's him and it did something to my eyes and did something to my face it gave it a sort of edge and it make my eyes stand out I thought this man is a ruthless man and he's a tough man like team the dark suit so I didn't have to do much work on top of that look as if it works now oh yeah mislabel Margaret I don't think you quite understand yes indeed yes I'm asking you to be my wife I know are you offended how could I be perhaps I should have written first time no no rather you will receive a letter from me thank you not at all and it's you I thank should I order the motor grant no that would be most kind it's a nice scene that isn't it nice in yeah yeah enjoy that is it true that before you actually go on the set of the first day's filming you will probably have read the script up to 150 times yeah well as though everybody's part they're not just yours yes more or less what I do is I take the scenes and I go over them and over the Marvin Mike sometimes go often 200 times it sounds obsessive but it is a bit obsessive I go over seeing a scene loud once I knew it it's like putting a cake in the oven and letting it bake and I hope that by that in that process that I'll be physically relaxed enough so that when they say action or you know let's go to rehearse whatever the part will flow through me in some way what about this understated sexuality of yours that I keep reading about do you notice it does your wife notice it stated sexuality every time I read a profile of you it talks about Hopkins understated sexy where is he I'm deeply envious of it are you where does it come from I don't know I've never heard of it I mean I I don't know I mean I I get the lie I laugh because I think yeah I'm a bandy-legged balding Welshman you know and I don't feel at all sexy I'm told that uh some of the ladies like me I don't know I don't know what to say I blush a bit well my wife says if they could only see you first thing good morning but no I don't know you know I don't mustn't take myself too seriously it's very pleasant yes um is that what they say that's what they say yes yeah there you go the new film the one where we're about to see soon remains of the day which i think is in many ways the best role you've had because you dominate that film you're in practically every scene I mean it's really a film about wasted lives in the ways and it's about all our lives really isn't there about everything being you know how we hold ourselves back from the real abundance of life we've got a clip of that too we can refresh your memory though it's so recent I'm sure he doesn't need refreshing they were Oh give us ah no sorry sir but I do have something to convey to you brother urgent is and if I may be permitted I'll come straight to the point um perhaps you will have noticed this morning's are the ducks and geese by the pond ducks and geese no I don't exist in it well perhaps the the birds and the flowers then or the young the shrubs and the bees no I've not seen any bees yes well this is in fact not the best time here to see them in their full glory sir what the bees I know so what I'm trying to say sir is that with the arrival of spring we shall see a most remarkable and profound change in all these surroundings huh yeah yeah I'm sure that's right the grounds not of that bestest now yes sir perhaps I wasn't really paying much attention to the air I hope glories of nature because it's one other whirring you know I'm DuPont d'Ivry has just arrived in the Far East mood imaginable which is the last things anyone models Oh Monsieur DuPont d'Ivry is arrived oh yeah half an hour ago in a really foul mood Oh in that case um please excuse me that's a my favorite scene actually the film because it is the scene where you Stevens have been instructed by your employer to teach the facts of life to his godson is about to be married yeah and this marvelous cross-purposes beautifully played and of course Emma Thompson's in it again I mean you yeah you can make a habit of this playing romantic films with Emma Thompson can be like the Lunt's Boger people call Bogart and Bacall I have a feeling that you might reach another milestone with another Oscar nomination for remains of the day you think so yeah I'll have to do some divorce it out of my you really yeah I don't know be very nice think about it you've also got Shadowlands coming up soon shadownet yes so they're keeping you very busy or you keeping yourself I'm keeping myself busy keeps me off the streets keeps you out of trouble keeps me out of the bars well long May all this prevail the remains of the day did result in another Oscar nomination which as with all the plaudits he was receiving Hopkins found hugely satisfying did you want to be a great success yeah you are a great success how has that changed you it hasn't changed me at all I've got more confidence in myself yeah when I started I just wanted to be famous I didn't want to become a great actor I didn't want to become a great Shakespeare tonight I had no idea that people say you the next Olivia I didn't want to become the next Olivia I didn't want to stand in wrinkle tighten the Old Vic stage for the rest of my life I had the ideas beyond that some people would call it arrogance and ambitious I'm all those things I'm very ambitious it hasn't changed me except I've faced up to the honesty and saying this is what I always wanted I remember once I was working with Emma Thompson and now we did remain today I think of a symptom or maybe how its end and she read an interview when I'd said in a magazine that said all I've ever wanted to be was rich and famous I think the interview of that day I was being rather you know bad boy nice no I didn't want to become a classical actor I wanted to become rich and famous and Emma said to me a few days later when she read this in this magazine on the paper shelf that's not true is it darling I said most absolutely to Spain I can't believe that about you I mean aren't you interested in the art it's no not at all I want to get on fast planes you know as Muggeridge once said you know you go up and down the world like the devil and one day you have to come home well maybe one day I will come home but for the moment I just enjoy he had some movement of my life though he was enjoying himself Hopkins was also as ever looking to avoid complacency and find his next creative challenge if you talk about our range of the day was a very simple straightforward part for me to play because I I'm good at that containment now I've mastered I suppose have very experience that I've been around doing it for a number of years and I've learned a few tricks here and there so I know how to contain the performance and like Shadowlands or what you know was it there's techniques that work better on film than on the stage I think they work up I I think I think they can work on stage on firm you have 90 lab tunity to do less and create more in fact by doing less and it's fairly straightforward this is very straightforward process I really do now I say that I work very hard I I mean I do a lot of study I do a lot of research do a lot of reading and a lot of learning of the text on the lines what if you want to call it but I once I'm ready I feel very relaxed and I enjoy it and I'm detached in a way especially on film because you have and I'm in control and I enjoy the control I enjoy being in master of the technique I enjoy being master of the performance but I keep it very light but now I'm reaching a stage where I want to give up that contained a quiet passionless person I now want to break out and do something big and boisterous and dangerous again because I know that that's all still in me cooking around and it's time to move on that's what I want to do Hopkins found his big boisterous character in the next oscar-nominated performance in the title role in Oliver Stone's 1996 film Nixon first the most obvious question is why did Oliver Stone choose you to play Nixon did it in a sense it's bit like getting Paul Newman to play Harold Macmillan and I'm maybe a good choice but not obvious what you know why I've asked myself that question a lot since he'd seen remains of the day and Shadowlands and some of my work he'd read a few interviews of mine those rather boring interviews where they talked about my drinking years and pain and all that and I think he thought that I've been I've been through the middle of it and he thought the working the remains of the day was really good playing repressed men I was have been associated with and and for some reason I don't know why he didn't think about the British accent and the the lack of Americanism in me or because I'm a man a British actor and he said something about being Welsh and I don't know how much all of the knows about Welsh people but he said there was something dark about me and being the outsider whatever his combination was he wanted to cast me and I I I played it I didn't say hard to get but I did question to my since you are aware you know I'm not an American and it's no easy task to get into an American rhythm of speech nevertheless he said well he said I think he didn't do it he said I want you to do it he said it's up to you we said but the part she knows if you wanted they said I'll give you some time to think about it and I thought well this is John's work with a really great great director a really great director of today's modern cinema and I'd be a fool to turn it down and regret it for the rest of my life if I didn't I may fall flat in my face I've done the film I'm a stallion Falls at my face but I have needed that challenge because I'd become a little complacent very complacent about I was paying parts that were easy for me that remains of the day shadowmaster dead easy parts is it true as I've heard that the final the clincher was that stone said to you if you don't play it I'm gonna offer it to Gary Oldman yes it was well he all of us a sort of demon really said them he's now I said you can go he said well you got a choice you can go off and make those boring sums did you usually make which know it nobody goes to see meaning some I know Czechoslovakian two of those and he said yeah because I've still undecided he said yeah he said you think I open would because I saw how can a gonna country come with pop like this everybody doesn't wrong I opened China every piece with rushman I ended the walk I did what I thought was right go whether they you were quoted a couple of years ago they're saying that it wouldn't bother you if you never acted again was that was that did you actually say that I think I was going through one of my phases ah I go through things the lonely Millican yes were they I don't know actually I think people say I think actors say that in order to get a bit of sympathy so he can't even think what we're losing and I think somebody might have said to me about why not okay fine you know live like that I love the cinema because it's I love it I love the whole feeling of it getting up in the morning going to the dressing room makeup or I love the routine I love the excitement of it I love the circus atmosphere hitting the road at the end of the wrap party stick by SIA adios amigos and get in the car and back into the night and on to my next it's like life it's like a life in the death and there's something very impersonal about it I think there's something so exciting about there is something about life in that life and death you know the long goodbyes and it's over numbered since 1993 Hopkins has been Sir Anthony deservedly joining the ranks of the acting nights he'd remember Keith in so many years and his passion for cinema continues to this day whether in crowd-pleasing blockbusters or intimate labors of love Hopkins still has an appetite for a challenge that's as impressive as the of his most famous creation aníbal Lecter

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