Anthony Hopkins filmography and biography
Date of birth: 31 December 1937, Margam, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Anthony Hopkins biography
Anthony Hopkins was born on 31 December 1937, in Margam, Wales.
Influenced by Richard Burton (I), he decided to study at College
of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, he moved to London
and joined the National Theatre, invited by Laurence Olivier,
who could see the talent in Hopkins. In 1967, he made his first film
for television, A Flea in Her Ear (1967) (TV).
From this moment on, he enjoyed a successful career in cinema and
television. In 1968, he worked on The Lion in Winter with
Timothy Dalton. Many successes came later, and Hopkins'
remarkable acting style reached the four corners of the world. In 1977,
he appeared in two major films: A Bridge Too Far with
James Caan (I), Gene Hackman, Sean Connery,
Michael Caine (I), Elliott Gould and
Laurence Olivier, and Maximilian Schell. In 1980, he
worked on The Elephant Man. Two good television
literature adaptations followed: Othello (1981) (TV) and
"Hallmark Hall of Fame" (1951) {The Hunchback of Notre Dame (#31.2)}.
In 1987 he was awarded with the Commander of the order of the British
Empire. This year was also important in his cinematic life, with
84 Charing Cross Road, acclaimed by specialists. In 1993,
he was knighted.
In the 1990s, Hopkins made movies like Desperate Hours and
Howards End, The Remains of the Day
(nominee for the Oscar), Legends of the Fall,
Nixon (nominee for the Oscar),
Surviving Picasso, Amistad (nominee for the
Oscar), The Mask of Zorro, Meet Joe Black
and Instinct. His most remarkable film, however, was
The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Oscar for
Best Actor. He also got a BAFTA for this role.
Anthony Hopkins trivia
- Is proud of his improvisational touches as Hannibal Lecter in
The Silence of the Lambs such as: the unnerving effect on
Jodie Foster when he mocked her character's West Virginia
accent; the distorion of the word "chianti" and the vile slurping sound
he makes after he describes eating the "census-taker." Hopkins also
notes that Hannibal never blinked his eyes when he spoke.
- 10/97: Ranked #57 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of
All Time" list.
- Often compared with fellow Welshman Richard Burton (I).
- 1987: Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
- 7/16/88: Received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the
University of Wales.
- 1993: Knighted in the New Year Honors List.
- 1975: Conquered his alcoholic addiction.
- Piano virtuoso.
- Father of Abigail Hopkins
- Into the 1991 restoration of Spartacus, scenes were
reintroduced which had been cut from the picture's 1967 reissue. One
such segment has Laurence Olivier, in the role of Marcus
Crassus, attempting to seduce the slave Antoninus (played by
Tony Curtis (I)). But the original soundtrack for this segment
had become lost. And so, Olivier having died in 1989, Anthony Hopkins
imitated the voice of Olivier (whom Hopkins had understudied at the Old
Vic) for the scene's re-created soundtrack. (The surviving Tony Curtis
presumably supplied his own voice.)
- Born at 9:15am-UT
- One of his greatest pleasures in past years on his frequent visits to
the USA was to get in a car and drive across the country, enjoying its
immensity as well as his own anonymity.
- 9/99: Was selected by an Entertainment Weekly on-line movie poll as the
Best Modern Actor and the Best Villain for his role as Hannibal Lecter.
- 4/12/00: Became a U.S. citizen, but is allowed to retain his British
knighthood and the title of Sir.
- Received his Academy Award for The Silence of the Lambs 11
years to the day of his father's death.
- Volunteers at the Ruskins School of Acting in Santa Monica, California,
where he teaches everything from Shakespeare to scenes, theory, and
monologues.
- Has the distinction of portraying two U.S. Presidents:
Richard Nixon in Nixon, and John Quincy Adams in
Amistad. He received Oscar nominations for both
performances.
- 1/01: He ranked second in the Orange Film Survey of the greatest British
films actors.
- Had a brush with death while shooting The Edge in Alberta,
Canada. He fell in a river, and was rushed to hospital to be treated
for hypothermia.
- Admitted that he felt very intimidated by the real Lt. Col. John Frost,
who he played in the movie A Bridge Too Far when Frost
visited the set one day to see how things were going.
- Served in the British National Service as a Royal Artillery man and for
a while was only known as "Gunner Hopkins".
- 9/24/03: Received star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- For his stage performance in "Pravda", he was awarded the 1985 London
Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actor, and
the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1986 (1985 season) for
Outstanding Achievement.
- He chose to play Prof. Van Helsing in Dracula because he
was still riding the success of his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in
The Silence of the Lambs and wanted to pick a role as far
removed from Lecter as possible.
- His Oscar-winning performance as Hannibal Lecter in
The Silence of the Lambs was ranked #1 on the American
Film Institute's Villains list in its compilation of the 100 Years of
The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.
- As a child, he was very close to his maternal grandfather, who for some
reason called him "George", while his father called him "Charlie".
- Is related to the poet William Butler Yeats on his mother's side
of the family.
- He included some unusual touches for Hannibal Lecter during his
preparation for the role, among which were making Lecter's voice
similar to the cutting warble of Katharine Hepburn and almost
never blinking, a characteristic he picked up from watching tapes of
convicted murderer Charles Manson.
- Has played a (future) king of England (Richard Lionheart in
The Lion in Winter) and two U.S. Presidents.
Interestingly, President Richard Nixon and his brothers were all
named after British kings, so it's likely that he played Nixon's
namesake.
- A Member of the RADA Council.
- Has three roles in common with Brian Cox (I). Both of them have
played Titus Andronicus. Hopkins appeared on stage as King Lear in
1986, the same year that Manhunter, which starred Cox as
Hannibal Lecter, was released. He was succeeded in the role of Lear by
Cox in 1991, the same year that he succeeded Cox in the role of
Hannibal Lecter.
- Graduated from The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, England.
- Is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Stratford Upon Avon,
England, where he spent three seasons after graduating from RADA.
- Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2005 Razzie Award nominating
ballot. He was suggested in the Worst Supporting Actor category for his
performance in the film Alexander, however, he failed to
receive a nomination. Had he gotten the nomination, it would have been
his first in 24 years. He was previously nominated for Worst Actor in
the film A Change of Seasons at the very first Razzie
Awards.
- Ranked #12 on Tropopkin's Top 25 Most Intriguing People [Issue #100]
- Has the distinction of twice playing former British Prime Minister
David Lloyd George in Young Winston and
The Edwardians.
- In Invercargill, New Zealand, there is a drama school named after
him--The Anthony Hopkins School of Dramatic Arts. He was present for
its opening, as he was in Invercargill filming scenes for the
The Worlds Fastest Indian at the time.
- Though dyslexic, he's always possessed a great memory for scripts.
- 9/20/05: On The Oprah Winfrey Show, he said that he is
most proud of The Silence of the Lambs,
The Remains of the Day and Proof.
- Likes to be called "Tony."
- Ate the same menu as Pablo Picasso during the filming of
Surviving Picasso, in which he played Picasso.
- An accomplished painter, he has allowed some of his landscape paintings
to be exhibited in San Antonio, Texas.
- 2006: His performance as Hannibal Lecter in
The Silence of the Lambs is ranked #70 on Premiere
Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.
- His performance as Hannibal Lecter in
The Silence of the Lambs is ranked #15 on Premiere
Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
- Turned down the role of Alfred Pennyworth in
Batman Begins.
- Reads each script 250 times out loud before filming, and to exercise his
memory, memorizes one new poem a week.
- Was set to play Jor-El in Superman Returns, but when
director Brett Ratner left the project, so did Hopkins.
- Has played two characters that lost a hand by having it severed: in
Titus and Hannibal.
- Attended Cowbridge boys grammar school as a youth.
- Quit smoking cigarettes using the Allen Carr method.
- The Anthony Hopkins Theatre at the Theatre Clwyd Cymru in Mold, North
Wales, UK was named in his honour.
- He is the patron on The Drama Association of Wales,UK which offers a
wide and varied range of services to Community Drama. Among others,
members include amateur and professional theatre practitioners,
educationalists and playwrights.
- Appears in Nixon with Dan Hedaya, and
The Good Father with Jim Broadbent. Hedaya later
played Nixon in Dick, and Broadbent played Nixon in
Dirty Tricks (2000) (TV).
- Parents: Muriel Anne Yeats (b.1913) and Richard Arthur Hopkins (died in
1981).
- Has played a King of England (Richard I, the Lionheart), a Prime
Minister of England (David Lloyd George), and two U.S.
Presidents (John Quincy Adams and Richard Nixon).
- Won a Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actor in a Play for "Equus" (1975).
- Was considered for the role of Mr. Freeze in
Batman amp; Robin until director Joel Schumacher
decided that Mr. Freeze must be "big and strong like he was chiseled
out of a glacier". The role went to Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- He's the only child of a couple who ran a bakery.
- Daughter, Abigail Hopkins, is a longtime friend of actress
Jennifer Blanc.
- Ex-son-in-law of Eric Barker (I) and Pearl Hackney.
- Was offered the part of Colonel Colin Caine in Lifeforce (1985).
- Resides in Santa Monica, California.
- Was considered for the role of Jack Byrnes in
Meet the Parents.
- He and Frank Langella both received Oscar-nominations for playing
Richard Nixon.
- After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, he served two
years in the British Army before beginning his acting career.
Anthony Hopkins quotes
- [on Gary Oldman] He is just like I was at his age.
- I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and
didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have
any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became
an actor.
- [Interviewed on Inside the Actors Studio] I once asked a
Jesuit priest what was the best short prayer he knew. He said, "Fuck
it,' as in, "Fuck it; it's in God's hands."
- The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the
English. The English lack heart.
- [December 1998] To hell with this stupid show business, this ridiculous
showbiz, this futile waste of life. I look back and see a desert
wasteland. All those years spent in a fake environment. Everything was
a fake.
- [On becoming a U.S. citizen in 2000] America has been very generous to
me, magnanimous really. I thought it would be good to give something
back. It was a decision of the heart.
- [on his days as an alcoholic, when he was drinking Mexican Spirit
tequila] I was really sort of on a prolonged acid trip. I saw things
and had peculiar quasi-religious experiences. I thought I was John The
Baptist, and I would talk to the sea at Malibu and the sea would talk
back to me. It was weird.
- [On his most famous character, Dr. Hannibal Lecter] I think he might be
a very interesting person to have lunch with, provided that YOU weren't
the lunch.
- One of the people I got to know years ago, which was a great privilege,
was Laurence Olivier. He was like a laser - that was his power.
And the only actor I've met since who had that same quality of
laser-like determination is Russell Crowe. The first day I
started working with him, I thought, "That guy's got it." The best way
to describe Russell is, he's like a shark circling round. He was
argumentative. He argued with the director all the time. I don't know
Russell that well, but I admire him, and you know, whatever he's got to
do really. I really like him because he's ballsy, he's got guts, he's
macho and all the rest of it. He's going through his bad boy period,
but he's basically a nice guy.
- I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand
madmen.
- Being a smoker is like being trapped in a complicated maze. It's as if
Allen Carr has a plan of the maze. Instantly I was freed from my
addiction.
- Acting is still enjoyable, but there are no more challenges any more for
me. No, none at all. I'm much more interested in painting and composing
music these days. I've become what I always wanted to be, a jobbing
actor. I'm just detached, I do my thing. I work hard at it, but I don't
invest my life in it. As long as they pay me on time and I get a good
script with a good director, I have fun. That's all.
- [on former US President Bill Clinton (I)] It seems to me that the
country rather misses him. He has impressed me. He asked me if I wanted
to accompany him on a trip to Brazil, and so off I went. I'd met the
President before in Washington, a very nice guy. So we were at this
dinner, talking after his gig, he gave this incredible speech and he
said, "Would you like to come to Brazil with me next week?". Of course
I said, "Yes". He's pretty exhausting to be with, because he's always
wanting to play cards or golf.
- Heroes, like Bogart (Humphrey Bogart). They deserve high
definition.
- I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was
Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He
brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've
had.
- I've done some good films. The Remains of the Day was
alright. The Silence of the Lambs. Nixon I
enjoyed. One of my favourites was working with Roger Donaldson
on The Worlds Fastest Indian. That was fun and seems to
be quite popular. It is wonderful to have reached that point where I
can do what grabs my attention, when I want to. I'm glad those days are
gone where I was yearning for work. People think I've worked a lot, but
I haven't. I've had a lot of time off. I've turned down a lot. When
you're younger you want to get every part to stop other people getting
it. Nowadays, I don't care - let them do it. I don't go through that
terrible thing of thinking, "If I don't do it, then who's going to get
to do it?" I just mosey my way through and see what happens.
- On Oliver Stone (I): Oh, Oliver's crazy, but I like him. He's
very rude to people. He insults people - he insults me - but you just
have to give it back. He says to me, "Oh, you're getting old." So you
shoot back with, "Yeah, so are you. You're getting bald, too. You've
aged, you're getting balder. Actually, you look older than me, Oliver.
It's no good dying your hair like that." But he's good. He's a very
talented man. He can be a bit exhausting. I did about 18 hours on
Alexander. I never saw it. I understand it wasn't very
good. I did 18 hours one night out in Borehamwood and thought, "No,
that's it." Had a long rest after that.
- On David Lynch (I): I wrote him a letter not so long ago because
I'd seen The Elephant Man again. I wrote him a letter to
apologise for my bad behaviour on that film. I was terribly behaved and
very rebellious. He wanted to do too many takes and I couldn't do it.
And he was a little remote and I could never understand what he was
talking about which made me very irritable. I haven't seen him for
years but he's a smart man, a very daring figure. I like David very
much. Brilliant, I think.
- My own father was a tough man. He was a pretty red hot guy but he was
also cold. He was also slightly disappointed in me because I was not a
good kid as a school boy, you know. But I learned from it, I liked that
coldness, because it was harsh. And he taught me to be tough. So I know
how to be tough. I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless.
It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.
- It's fun to get the Oscar, it was fun to get a knighthood. But you know,
you wake up in the morning, the reality's still there. You're still
mortal.
- The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are God.
- How do you play Hannibal Lecter? Well just don't move. Scare people by
being still.
- I'd been to the dentist, and I was seven years old, to have a tooth
taken out. In those days they yanked it out. I was feeling nauseous and
I hallucinated. I was in bed and I remember waking up with a knock at
the door - a box was put in my bedroom. And it was full of
encyclopedias, which my father had got me. I remember looking through
those books and finding a knowledge. I learned everything I could.
- For many, many years I felt like I didn't belong. I was a duffer at
school - everything was incomprehensible to me.
- I was an only child. My mother married into a family of in-laws. She
felt like an outsider; which she was. She was a powerful force in my
father's life. He was a baker - and she was ambitious for him. She
didn't want him to be subservient to his father. She woke him up.
- [On meeting his third wife, Stella Arroyave, a Colombian-born antiques
dealer]: I married a remarkable woman who has changed a lot of my
perception about myself and about life. She's very positive, very
powerful. Every time I get a negative thought, she says, 'Cancel it'.
- Once you accept the fact that there's nothing to fear, you drill into
the primal oil well. I believe when we do things without fear, we can
do anything. As long as you don't worry about the consequences.
- [Twenty-three years after asking Burton for an autograph, Hopkins was on
Broadway in Equus. Burton was taking over the role from
Hopkins, who asked to see him backstage: "He was about to go on stage
and he said, 'Why haven't we worked together? You come from Taibach'.
That's the only time I met him again.
- It's nice to get a knighthood but in the end it's just the same old face
in the mirror getting older and older - you have to shave every morning
and you look at your face and think: this is it, this is the deal. And
there's a wonderful harsh reality about that. Time is going by. I
better get on with it. I better live.
- I became an actor but I still don't feel that I'm a part of this
profession. I never have - 50 years I've been doing it.
- [On working with Woody Allen on
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger: "I wasn't sure how he
would be - I'd heard stories that he was aloof. Woody says 'Okay, you
come in through the door - let's rehearse it. Okay, that's good. Sure.
Let's shoot it'. So we shoot it. 'Okay, very good. But improvise'."
- [On British humour]: It's like Jewish humour. I love that.
- We live in such a precious, pussyfooting society - everyone takes
offence so quickly.
- [He did try therapy, briefly, but didn't like it]: Well, you know you
never actually fess up to everything - you try to cover your ground,
cover your tracks - you want to sound interesting. Living here [in Los
Angeles] - all men must cry. Well, I don't think we're wired that way.
I think it's okay to express emotions and grief, but to make a habit of
it, this endless psychobabble in our culture - everyone goes on
The Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil -
it makes me want to throw up. I mean, come on!
- When I break with a friend it is sudden. I will give no warning ahead of
time, just change my address and telephone number. They may be confused
- but they'll survive. Nobody dies.
- I was told years ago that I suffer from 'terminal reasonableness'. From
that point on I thought that was something to work on. Not to become a
son of a bitch, but to say no. Now, after all these years, I can say:
'What part of the word 'no' do you not understand?'
- I don't want to be anything else other than what I am. I can say that
with passion. No regrets
- There's an epitaph on my mother's grave - I brought her over years ago
and she's buried up in the Hollywood Hills - from a poem written in
1896 by Ernest Dowson: 'They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream / Our path emerges for a while, then closes /
Within a dream.' Isn't that beautiful?
- [At age 72]: I'm not getting the parts I was 20 years ago - but I'm
still doing okay. The prospect of that blank wall where there's no more
work - it doesn't fill me with dread
- I sometimes wake at night and I can hear the sea and I think: what the
hell am I doing here? How did I get here?" And I make no excuses. I say
'tough titty.' Also 'TYFP' - 'That's your f
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- problem. '
- From the moment I made that decision [in 1975 to give up drinking] a
very powerful thought shot into my brain - it's all over, now you can
start living. It's extraordinary. That's what I'm aware of today. The
powerful spirit in me. I'm not callous. It's expediency. I will not be
taken for a fool any more.
- I may sound to you like a really hard man - I am not ashamed of it at
all. I'm not hard, I'm honest.
- [on paintings he has done] I suppose I could call them primitive because
again, as I have no academic training, I could no longer sit in an art
class drawing apples or vases or nudes - I can't feel hemmed in.
- [on acting} I'm not going to turn my back on it until they tell me it's
over and we don't want you anymore. So if they say they want me I will
go ahead and do it, learn my lines. You know, do what I do. So it's the
best time of my life now.
- Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry. They're always
complaining. I go, "How are you doing?" They say "Ahh..." and they moan
and try to take from you. I know a number of people like that, but I
can't waste my time on them.
- Over the years I worked with a couple of younger actors who reminded me
of myself. I like bad boys. I worked with Russell Crowe in
Australia before he became a star. Russell is a bad boy. I think he is
terrific. Richard Burton (I) was a bad boy, but he shook the
rafters of the world. I think it is good to be bad - I was bad all my
life. I still am.
- On 'Peter OToole (I): I had some bizarre nights with Peter when
we made The Lion in Winter, but to be honest I don't
remember them. He enjoyed his drink - and I did, too. We weren't close
friends or anything but we got drunk very quickly and there was always
amusement and laughter. I love drunks; they are terrific - except when
they throw up on you.
- I hated the Sixties. It was one long wet Wednesday afternoon in the
Waterloo Road. For most of it I was drinking myself into oblivion.
- We like to look into the dark side of ourselves and I think that causes
us great fascination and fear. That's why people like Hannibal Lecter.
He was a man caught in a monstrous mind.
- I've got no problem if people want to spend hours beforehand preparing
before they come on-set, as long as they don't keep you waiting. And
I've read Stanislavski and did the Method myself, and all that, but now
I've simplified it: learn your lines, show up, and get on with it.
- On Laurence Olivier: He was a pretty colorful personality. He had
tremendous drive, and ambition, and was a real force. A very nice guy
and a titanic talent. His sort of talent has, in the eyes of cynics,
become rather unfashionable. There are people who knock Olivier quite
often, but not a single one of them could ever touch him in terms of
talent. I thought he was an extraordinary man.
- [on playing Hannibal Lecter for the third time in
Red Dragon] I really wanted to play him with much more
ferocious energy, and avoid the jokes. I really wanted to show what a
true monster he is. He's a killer. He's a dangerous man, not Mr.
Cutesy. This isn't a franchise, like
Raiders of the Lost Ark. This is a dangerous man, who's
better off in jail. So that's the premise we went with.
- I'm not good at being cooped up with anyone for very long. Maybe that's
why I wasn't designed for marriage. I'm not good at any kind of
relationship with people, really. I mean, I've had a number of good
ones, but I get restless and I take off.
- On Richard Attenborough: Richard's a nice guy, very persuasive, a
great salesman in the sense that he gets what he wants from you. He can
charm a lot of people. He's a good man. I haven't seen him for a long
time.
- You know when some of these megaphones of Hollywood show up on these
award shows, and just never shut the f
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-k up? I just want to say
'Accept your award. Say "thank you," and get off!' I'm just not
interested in all that bulls
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-t. There are surgeons and nurses and
teachers, people out there who really deserve awards.
- On The Silence of the Lambs: As soon as I saw that script
I knew this was one of those special parts. I don't know why, it's just
an instinct. I'd never heard of the book. I'd never heard of
Thomas Harris (I). I read the script and they told me
Jonathan Demme was doing it - I'd never heard of him, either. So
I watched Married to the Mob and
Something Wild, which I thought was a terrific film. And
we had the great cast: Jodie Foster. I knew it was something
good. That was the only surefire one where I knew it was going to work.
I remember my first meeting with Jodie in New York, for a reading of
the whole script. Jodie had just won the Oscar for
The Accused and I was kind of impressed at this wonderful
young actor. I was a little intimidated, a little quiet, shy.....I
didn't realise she felt the same!
- On Hannibal: They offered me the part and a very good
salary, so I thought, "Why not?" First of all I didn't think I wanted
to do it again, but then they said it was going off to Venice or
wherever, so I watched The Silence of the Lambs briefly
and thought, "Okay, let's have another go at this." I didn't care,
really. If that's what they want, then okay. When Jodie [Foster]
dropped out, Ridley [Scott] said to me, "What do you think of certain
actors?" I said "I think Julianne Moore (I) is very, very good."
I'd worked with her on Surviving Picasso. And she pulled
it off beautifully. If the film succeeded or not, I don't mind. You
move on.
- I went to America years ago because I felt I didn't fit in here [UK]. I
worked with some good people here, like Judi Dench and all that.
But I never fitted into a group of actors here. I was on the outside; I
was like a sore thumb. I didn't have any friends who were actors at all
- I never did. I've always been on the outside, which is good. But it
was difficult being on London in this very strange acting community.
All that "theatre, dahling" - I just found it insufferable. It was just
boring. So I did the thing I'd wanted to do all my life, which was to
make movies. I've never felt a part of this profession, but I enjoy it.
Working with Katharine Hepburn on
The Lion in Winter, she said to me, "Don't act. Read the
lines. Just be." I said, "Okay." She said, "Watch
Spencer Tracy (I). He didn't act. He just spoke the lines." I
thought, "Well, that's pretty good advice." I think the actors from
that generation were wonderful. They didn't act. They just came on and
they did it, and the characters were wonderful. People say, "They
didn't act. They were always themselves." Well, who else were they
going to be? In England we have a tradition where everyone is acting.
Too much acting.
- We're living in a pretty strange time. I went into a shop to buy my wife
some clothes. They had this big plasma screen on with these women on
the catwalk. I thought, 'God Almighty, what have we become?' These
girls - anorexic, walking like machines, no soul. You look at fashion
magazines and you think, 'What are we living in?' You look at the red
carpet, Paris Hilton, and you think, 'Is there anything going on
up there?' It's a mass enslavement, it's kind of fascism. It's the
androgyny of the human soul. I don't think people think any more. Maybe
I'm just old.