Anthony Hopkins
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I was bullied a lot.
I was slapped around.
But I look back and I think, well, that's part of growing up.
And I wasn't bright.
And in those days, teachers could knock you about.
I remember being slapped across the head by a teacher several times.
because I didn't know something.
And what I would do, Virta would be called in the army, dumb insolence.
I wouldn't respond.
I'd just withdraw into myself, and I'd stare at them blankly, and it drove them nuts.
And they're all dead now.
Well, it's still there in me from childhood.
But what you do, it now whispers.
So when I say, shut up, I just, yeah, thanks a lot.
We all have problems.
We've all got limitations.
But I do believe that if you say, wake up and live, act as if it's impossible, we actually tap into a power that's in ourselves, right?
which helps us to do, well, not everything, but some things.
I discovered that I could compose music.
I discovered that I could write.