Anthony Hopkins - What's The Meaning Of Life | One Of The Most Eye Opening Speeches

[Music] I'm fascinated by the dream world we live in our dreaming asleep dreaming and that moment of pre-sleep when the subconscious mind whirls up and i might own personal feeling is that and this is beyond religion or spirituality is that this is all an illusion Maya because my life has been such sitting here tonight 40 years ago I wants to come to the Actors Studio none of it makes any logical left brain sense to me they've been books written about a younger or over that there's something in us that we deeply understand deep in our nature deeper than anything we can even begin to comprehend and that certain moments in our life we get little signals little flashes I had one moment when I decided to change my life taking fashion that says it's yours if you want it and I don't know how that happens but it's happened to me so that's what I've tried to put into this movie about the dream like nature of life [Music] what do you think happens I don't know I think there's a superior consciousness in all of us that we touch into sometimes I don't know if I believe in anything I mean I've dated but I believe whatever that thing is to be talked about the centuries I think it's just within us I mean things of Abram remarkable things have happened in my life by by just wishing or asking for something for a bit of healthy as I can and I don't believe I'm not a I'm an agnostic I guess is it anybody can help me or whatever and there's something inside us that will respond I believe I believe that we have to make our lives because life is stuff I have to believe in the power of life my life in this acting game has just been one long drawn-out surprised I'm surprised that I'm still here example when I was a little kid starting off in the YMCA poor tall but having no idea what I was going to do because I didn't know what else to do sure beats working for a living but I used to jump on the back of those double-decker buses and hold onto the white pole I never wanted to go inside I said love swinging on the thing you know the wind in my face that's been a metaphor for my life in this business there is no shortcut to happiness you have to live your life if it hits you fine but it's a morality tale when I wanted was younger I wanted to be famous it all happened and it doesn't feel any different it's very pleasant and but I don't take it seriously I take it over the little grain of salt we all sell ourselves to some degree and I was told I sold my soul for Hollywood well maybe that's do it I've been told that I sold out the success doesn't necessarily bring you unhappiness it can bring you a lot of happiness it's relatively depends how you handle it and that when you're younger it's harder to handle and as I've been around for some years I think I've got a fairly good balance but maybe that's pride talking but I I feel fairly balanced I've been around the city block a few times and you mellow out and you just don't take things too seriously do something new you know you got to make you've gotta can't stay in your comfort zone that's what we all do we get to a certain age we'll still has comfort zone with the recliners watching television day in the day and we get a certain agent movie sent at the end of the arrow I sit around watching television for the rest of my life because I've done it all sitting on my laurels it breathes it's not worth it I mean life's so short and such glorious images in the world and such horror as well but I want to see it all so I've moved out of my comfort zone it's some essential for me otherwise I may as well die so I've done it ever I've broken every rule in the book and not out of malice or any telling anyone that I'll show you I did it for to show myself I've showed myself I looked into Maratha I'll show you one day I've done something completely new I wrote the music and I feel limitless you know anything with faith is you can move mountains and trust and let go and all that's something you know how nice to just throw myself into a tendon there when the negatives came to my mind there were the positive sounds in my head you know I'd say I can't do it you and I I used to meditate and visualize myself doing it nice to visualize myself on like a kind of try and visualize myself doing those sort of signing cards and spinning them and then gradually surprising the power of mind what happens you know your muscles begin to respond it's like anything they may feel playing the piano or driving the car comes through relaxation and not to take life on its face value that it's all a mystery and it's an illusion and that everything is random and there are no guarantees and also I don't know what to take there's no message in it I'm not meant to miss it's also I know people are getting a strange intuitive feeling about the nature of it because the totem of subconscious mind the nature of memory and dreams the whole thing is dream everything in this is a dream and I'm not sure what the reality is but when you look at our own lives I mean we don't know if there's any we don't know what we have 'ti is we don't know what life is we don't know what time is we could be dreaming in this at this moment we don't know that's how asleep the human race is so our whole history has been one of a slumber and sometimes it takes a little bit of I wanted to break people up a little just pull the rug say oh this is a movie now is it they go what in your 79 plus years on this planet what do you what is there a bit of wisdom that you can share with us that it may be something we wouldn't know because we've overlooked it or something that you're really among above all else you think you've learned that you can share with us let's keep going keep going never give up I think that's really good advice here [Applause] you know figures we get questions in our head and little voices that put a stone when we were kids and all that so I get over that that's where I've had to do is get over the you know whatever trouble didn't just I kind of photograph of myself in my phone when I was a little boy and I was little confused kid as we all were now look at us we did okay kid [Laughter] [Applause] I like that life is tough but you just got to get out of bed get on and do it my grandfather always carried his own luggage and all of our luggage oh and we're always like what are you doing put that down but and now I realize like that's what it is right but you're gonna kept going yeah got to do it you

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Length: 7min 22sec (442 seconds)

Published: Wed May 30 2018