Anthony Hopkins
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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.
I was astounded that I was asked to do it.
There was...
Olivia's Casket, full of the flowers and wreaths and collections of flowers from Shakespeare's Winter's Tale.
And after that, we got into our cars and
And we went to the crematorium and I was sitting next to Maggie Smith, the great actress Maggie Smith.
I didn't know her that well, but we were sitting next to each other.