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Years ago i met richard burton in port talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and i thought, 'i want to get out and become like him'. not because of wales, because i love wales, but because i was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and i thought becoming an actor would do that.
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Anthony Hopkins
Years ago i met richard burton in port talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and i thought, 'i want to get out and become like him'. not because of wales, because i love wales, but because i was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and i thought becoming an actor would do that.
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I was born in the same town as richard burton, the actor, and i saw him, he used to come - he and his wife drove by in the car in my father's shop and burton would come home from hollywood and ask him for his autograph, and i thought, i want to be like him. and that's all i said to myself, i want to be like that. i want to get out of this environment of my own empty mind.
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I've always felt very proud of wales and being welsh. people are a bit surprised when i say i'm welsh. i was born in wales, went to school in wales and my mother was welsh. i'm welsh. it's my place of birth, my country.
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I go on the bus, i walk. a friend left his car recently at my house and i took it out one day just for 15 minutes and it was terrible. you know why? i felt like i was back in la again. four or five years ago, when i had a car and i had been out of the city i wouldn't feel i was back until i got in the car, you know. but now i feel off the grid. i feel that i am not part of the culture. and because i don't have a car i don't really go anywhere to buy things. in fact, i have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything i own.
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What i really learned from tim burton is that it's important to have your own person in a role because you can't play a character unless there are elements of human behaviour that you yourself understand. i was really struck by how tim burton would like to sit and chat about you... or question things which then you had never thought about. it is a good thing to always step back a bit with things like that. but i try my damned hardest to learn something from everything i do.
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All my life i've been lonely. i've been lonely at crowded parties. i've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and i've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. but now i'm not lonely any more.
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This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. but instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. like you don't dare get a cold. how dare you get a cold! i mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. you know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. i sometimes wish, gee, i wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection.
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