Anthony Hopkins

Well, I don't mean to be responsibly indifferent to everything.

There are difficulties.

There are monstrous difficulties in life.

And yeah, you take notice of them.

But finally, I think now approaching 88 years of age, I wake up in the morning thinking, I'm still here.

How?

I don't know.

But whatever is keeping me, I think, thank you very much, much obliged.

Beyond my finite self, there's not much I can do.

I had a gift when I was a boy.

I could suddenly learn lots of words of speeches from Shakespeare and poems and all that.

Now at this age, I look at those poems that I wrote down or they bring back clear memories of my childhood.

And I get very moved by it.

I just have to think of them.

I get tearful, not through sadness, but through the wonder of having been alive, having lived those years and my clear memories of Wales, my clear memories of my parents, their struggles and hardships after the war years.

They really struggled to make a living and to give me an education.

I look back with tremendous gratitude and I get kind of weepy because I remember the glory of being a child.

I had a good childhood.

I wasn't bright in school.

I was hopeless.