This reinforces my good opinion of him.
The World's Fastest Indian was an enjoyable movie.
Oh my .. a Hollywood Actor that gets it
They are few and rare these days
He said: "I won't return to theatre work. It's monotonous, too much like being in prison, standing on stage in tights.
"I admire actors who can do it, and I'm sure they have a great life, but I can't stay in any one place for too long, or settle into that grey, sombre atmosphere of the Waterloo Road on a wet Wednesday afternoon.
"There's something so depressing looming across the muddy Thames from that concrete breeze block, with the smell of stale coffee, and thinking, 'Oh, God I have to do another matinee', and the luvvies and the darlings.
"They're all right, but I have better interests than sitting in Le Caprice talking about the problems of being an actor."
Wow! Have always admired his work but this..... good for Sir Anthony. What is it with Wales that they produce such fine actors?
P.S. Someone here on FR said THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN is Hopkins' best work, ever.
Sir Anthony: a breath of fresh air. :)
He seems to have joined the growing number of older actors who decry the current culture that creates "stars" rather than "actors." IIRC, Christopher Lee said that he seriously considered quitting because the current crop of big names were so poor at acting.
NO KIDDING!!!
And really really enjoyed him in THE EDGE. The billionaire who keeps his head about him in the most dire of circumstances.
Anthony Hopkins - tops my list of favorite actors!
If only I had money to make movies. I'd make things that entertain. Messages would be buried deep or non existant. I'd make a movie about a Desert Storm hero. I'd make a movie about an Iraqi escaping Iraq and converting to a real religion. I'd make a movie portraying the war with islam as it is, not how others wish it to be. I'd make sci-fi's about human spirit reaching and stretching, not about today's politics in a future setting. /< dreaming>
Wow. How refreshing. I've always liked his work but, as with any actor, I've avoided knowing his personal thoughts. I'm relieved to find that I'd probably be able to stand him as a person too.
Priceless...
And 'Sir'(in his own mind) George Clooney was giving Hollywood a big slap on the back for being so 'with it'.
Now that Narnia is big again,
I urge ALL Anthony Hopkins or C.S. Lewis fans to see a fantastic movie, "Shadowlands." It is the true story of how Lewis, who had already written "The Four Loves," discovered the truest, deepest love, found only in suffering for another, and learnt from his improbable marriage to an atheist, Jewish, socialist, New York divorcee.
And yes, there is one scene that will wrench the heart of any Narnia fan...
I agree completely. There are good movies out there, but one must look carefully. For example, we really enjoyed Secondhand Lions. An interesting story with funny characters.
Sir Anthony Hopkins
Born: December 31, 1937, Port Talbot, South Wales
Education: Cardiff College of Drama, Wales; RADA, London
Often called the successor to fellow Welsh actor Richard Burton, Hopkins was a celebrated stage actor (with notable National Theater credits in the 1960s) before making an auspicious film debut in The Lion in Winter (1968), as the scheming Richard the Lionheart.
Hopkins won several awards for his 1975 Broadway debut in Equus, playing a psychiatrist who questions the meaning of his own life when he treats a passionate, disturbed young man who has blinded several horses. Ironically, Burton succeeded Hopkins in the Broadway production and starred in the film version.
Hopkins has played volatile, obsessed characters (the ventriloquist in Magic, 1978; Captain Bligh in The Bounty, 1984), as well as quietly repressed, mild-mannered types (Bruno Hauptmann, the accused kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby, in the excellent 1976 TV movie, The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case; the quiet London bookseller in 84 Charing Cross Road, 1987). He made an indelible impression, and broadened his audience considerably, as Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, the brilliant, cultivated serial killer at the center of Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Yes, we "audience members" may not be quite as mentally adroit and sharp as "movie makers," but we aren't as mindless as they think. We can actually find our way to work in the morning, remember where stores and supermarkets are, and a host of other things too. In fact, just the other day after reading the paper, I reassembled it just as it had been purchased. I was quite proud with myself. /s
Absoulutlely straight - lots more intelligence in old movies than new movies - Hopkins nails it.
Of course we've seen the culture dumbed down in all other areas so why should movies be any different? The whole thing is a viscious cycle because the dumber things get, the harder it is to reverse the trend.