Anthony Hopkins

But it was vocal, male, reasonable like a radio voice.

And the craving to drink was taken from me or left.

I don't know of any theories except, you know, divinity or that power that we all possess inside us that creates us from birth, life force, whatever it is.

It's a consciousness, I believe.

That's all I know.

Shall I give you another epiphany?

Yeah.

I go back to 1955, Easter.

My school report had arrived, the dreaded school report.

I was 17.

And I was dreading this day because my parents would read these terrible reports on my progress in school because I was a dummy.

I was known as Dennis the Dunce.

Couldn't understand anything that was going on.

Resentful, lonely and all that.

I remember my father opening the report.

The dreaded moment, about five o'clock in the evening.

We were going to go out to see a film, I remember.

Beautiful spring day.

And he opened the report and it said, Anthony is way below the standard of the school, which is a death knell, really.

My father said, I don't know what's going to happen to you.