Anthony Hopkins
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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.
But he was worried because, and quite reasonably, he'd spent a bit of money to give me an education and I wasn't capable of meeting that standard.
I couldn't understand anything.
My brain was sort of cut off.
I remember taking a slight move away.
I said, one day I'll show you.
My father looked at me.