David Marchese

And you went inside and you told a young priest there that you had found God.

Now, I get the sense that you're not, you know, going to church every Sunday or sort of praying in a conventional way.

So what is God to you?

If you're getting nearer to the big goodbye, do you take any pride or draw any meaning or take any solace from what you leave behind, both as a person and as an artist?

It's a fairly brusque voice.

You're not so hot.

But, Sir Anthony, I realize I'm dancing around a question that I would like your answer to.

Do you think your life has had meaning?

After the break, a poetry reading by Sir Anthony Hopkins.

It is David.

How are you?

Good.

Good.

So I, of course, saw that at the end of your book, there's an appendix that includes a handful of poems, which is something I'd never seen done in an autobiography before.

Can you tell me why you decided to include those poems?

Would you be willing to read The West Wind by John Macefield?

That is one of the poems that you included in the appendix.

I'd like to end on that eloquent grace note.

Sir Anthony Hopkins, thank you very much.

Thank you.