MacCruiskeen wrote:Well, to state the obvious, crikkett: Like everybody else except one person, your husband is not Anthony Hopkins and he didn't have Hopkins's life and he didn't make that film. Anyway, not to worry, Anthony Hopkins got over it, or under it or something.
(Obviously [I hope] I'm not arguing against performance as such. But this should really go without saying.)
Well, imagine my surprise when I learn that Anthony Hopkins actually did say he wasted his life, acting.
Knock me over with a feather.
Oscar-winning actor Anthony Hopkins is claiming he's retiring from films. The surprise announcement came in Rome over the weekend, when he told reporters, "Acting is bad for mental health. I can't take it anymore ... I have wasted my life." Friends reportedly believe that the bad reviews of "Meet Joe Black," in which Hopkins costars with Brad Pitt, and the strain of having just filmed Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" in Rome contributed to Hopkins' remarks. But as one Hopkins pal told the New York Post: "This has happened before, and it'll happen again. He's just going through one of his moments."
