Anthony Hopkins

Speak up.

Be clear.

Wandering on like a backstreet Marlon Brown is not going to help you at all in your career.

I never heard of him since.

No.

It's an entertainment.

Maybe it's an educational way of entertaining.

I'm not dismissing it, but I'm just saying, you know, if I start taking myself too seriously, it's only a job.

It's only acting.

So for me, they're just pastiches, little dabs of paint in one's life.

And not to be taken, because at the moment when you get to a certain age in life, you're going through, you've got ambitions, you've got great dreams, and everything's fine, and there on the distant hill is death.

And you think, well, now is the time to wake up and live and really enjoy it.

Oh, yeah.

I didn't know if they were dreams.

They just happened to me.

Because I can't take credit for them at all.

I mean, my life is a mystery to me.

I'm not trying to sound ultra modest or humble.

But I have to confess that I don't understand how it all happened.

The miracle is, I look at my hands, you know, my hands are in 87-year-old man's hands.