Anthony Hopkins
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And I'm very good at that.
I learn everything there is to about the text that I'm studying because that reforms something in me.
And I suppose on a deep psychological level,
I'm trying to escape from what I was.
I don't know.
Well, that lonely kid, you know.
And actually the vain surprise of saying, I did it.
I survived my loneliness.
I survived those bullies.
Not that I blamed them.
God bless them all.
Even the teachers who beat me about.
I mean, I'm not a victim.
And, you know, if people choose to wallow in there, oh, well, okay, go ahead, but you're going to die.
And that's why I drank, to nullify that discomfort or whatever it was in me, because it made me feel big.
You know, booze is terrific because it makes you instantly feel in a different space.
And I enjoyed that.
I didn't do it that long.
I did it for 15 years.
But I remember thinking, this is the life.