David Marchese

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.

That's Sir Anthony Hopkins.

His memoir, We Did Okay, Kid, will be published on November 4th.

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This conversation was produced by Seth Kelly.

It was edited by Annabelle Bacon, mixing by Sonia Herrero and Katherine Anderson.

Original music by Dan Powell, Diane Wong, and Marion Lozano.