Anthony Hopkins
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I said, no, I want to be standing.
Why?
I said, I can smell her coming down the corridor.
When she sees me, there's this still perfectly civil gentleman.
Good morning.
You're not real FBI, are you?
All the way to the FBI.
That's the way to build a portrait.
And it's all remote because Lecter is the remote, spellbinding character.
And if you have remoteness as the centrifugal force in you, that's the driving force that pulls you in.
Well, it's a touchy subject, isn't it?
Because I'm religion and, you know...
But what happened that morning when that voice said, it's over, now you can start living, and it has all been for a purpose.
So don't forget one moment of it.
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.