Anthony Hopkins
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I knew that was a power way beyond my understanding.
Not up there in the clouds, but here, in here.
So I chose to call it at that moment, God.
I didn't know what else to call it.
Short word, God, easy to spell.
And I recently wrote a piece of music which was conducted in Riyadh, Goodbye, on piano and orchestra.
And at the end, it came to me as I was writing it, as I was composing it, that that's it.
We come full circle.
We dip down to, that's all, folks.
And that it was all a dream anyway.
Everything is a dream, and it's goodbye before death takes us.
Oh, you mean a heritage?
A legacy.
A legacy.
I never think about it.
I never think about it.
when they cover the earth over you.
That's it.
We move on.
I remember going to... I was asked by the widow of Lawrence Lever, Joan Plowright, if I would read the last lines of King Lear at the casket in this little church in Sussex.