People Don't See It - Anthony Hopkins On The Illusion Of Life

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  • A powerfully moving speech from actor and icon Sir Anthony Hopkins on the illusion of life.
    “I love life because what more is there?"
    - Anthony Hopkins
    Speaker: Anthony Hopkins
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  • @TheBubbaZinetti
    @TheBubbaZinetti Před 28 dny +21

    I remember when I was 8 or 9, Tony came to our house to try to help my father with his alcoholism, my dad turned him away but I will never forget his selflessness in trying, I found out over the years that he had done similar things with other people, always putting himself out to help others, with no press or fanfare, he's a wonderful person and deserves praise for his actions. Thanks Tony, I will always remember what you tried to do for our family, God bless you

  • @deborahhenderson4929
    @deborahhenderson4929 Před 4 měsíci +333

    Today is the tomorrow I was SO worried about...Yesterday!!!
    Now THAT'S a thought I'll keep with me forever! Xx

  • @legniak1
    @legniak1 Před 4 měsíci +263

    Just hearing him speak stirs your emotions. A beautiful Welsh soul

    • @tristandeleglise3924
      @tristandeleglise3924 Před 3 měsíci +2

      The piano helps too...

    • @Dandelion0962
      @Dandelion0962 Před 3 měsíci

      Look up the definition for welsh, or Welsh in historical location. And you may wish to rephrase your wording.

    • @legniak1
      @legniak1 Před 3 měsíci

      @@Dandelion0962why?

    • @Dandelion0962
      @Dandelion0962 Před 3 měsíci

      @@legniak1 did you look up the words?

    • @jeff_forsythe
      @jeff_forsythe Před měsícem +2

      Did you know that we all have an immortal soul?

  • @tomlee3010
    @tomlee3010 Před 4 měsíci +144

    When he is a film he makes the film worth watching.

    • @T1tusCr0w
      @T1tusCr0w Před 3 měsíci +3

      You know why? He gives you something. It’s authenticity. It’s the one thing humans almost always know when they see it. But it’s so rare and getting rarer.

    • @jcd3869
      @jcd3869 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@T1tusCr0wwow that is a very profound statement. Thank you for that! Never thought of that exactly but do agree it is true.

    • @T1tusCr0w
      @T1tusCr0w Před 3 měsíci

      @@jcd3869 🙏🏻

    • @derekstaroba
      @derekstaroba Před 2 měsíci

      He is literally a boss I would not have watched avengers if not for him he portrayed the perfect odin he is my favorite actor such an intelligent man my desire is that he lives forever

  • @dmackenzie3528
    @dmackenzie3528 Před 4 měsíci +195

    "My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier."
    - Anthony Hopkins

    • @niconine268
      @niconine268 Před 3 měsíci +7

      Wise indeed

    • @caobita
      @caobita Před 3 měsíci +5

      He is absolutely right, a very wise man and also a great actor

    • @Robbo822
      @Robbo822 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Spoken like a true evil person.

    • @fredmercury1314
      @fredmercury1314 Před měsícem

      Conversely, your reputation is your most valuable asset. So what others think of you and say about you, is vitally important to your success.

    • @jeff_forsythe
      @jeff_forsythe Před měsícem

      Every sane person cares about what others think about them, bullocks, words are cheap.

  • @MaineOffGrid.
    @MaineOffGrid. Před 3 měsíci +157

    Hopkins is a gift to the world.

    • @T1tusCr0w
      @T1tusCr0w Před 3 měsíci +3

      They won’t come again. The world of today isn’t built to nurture people like Tony. You know what I mean. 👊🏻

    • @MaineOffGrid.
      @MaineOffGrid. Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@user-fg1we6hu3d
      No. Some people are definitely NOT a gift to the world.

    • @Robbo822
      @Robbo822 Před 2 měsíci

      So you like sicko films?

    • @MaineOffGrid.
      @MaineOffGrid. Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@Robbo822
      I like good acting 🙄

    • @tannhauser5399
      @tannhauser5399 Před měsícem +1

      @@T1tusCr0w - it doesn'r mean that people like that hasn't existed, or they don't at the moment. Philosophy is build on that after all.
      They always have, it is just nobody was listening to them, or most don't - as they pursue the material world, consumerism, greed, money, have more "goods" that the other guy, or my neighborus and so on - all driven by their own ego. But people like that has always been there.

  • @angelakparkinson1809
    @angelakparkinson1809 Před 3 měsíci +67

    He get's the bigger picture, what an incredible speech.

  • @danes.claussen8571
    @danes.claussen8571 Před 3 měsíci +111

    How this man has won only two Oscars is unbelievable. I'd give him 10.

    • @David-cm4ok
      @David-cm4ok Před 3 měsíci +5

      Oscars are gay. Worthless.

    • @hughjass8430
      @hughjass8430 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Not that oscars matter but winning them is all about politics and schmoozing. I doubt Hopkins likes either

    • @ChrisTian-rm7zm
      @ChrisTian-rm7zm Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@David-cm4ok I guess it makes you feel better to say this.

    • @enough1494
      @enough1494 Před 2 měsíci +1

      He has gathered thousands of Oscar moments in his life, and has enjoyed them as such!

    • @joanrobinson9193
      @joanrobinson9193 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Oh-liv-ee-aa, not Oliver. Sheesh.

  • @Bad.Pappy.Official
    @Bad.Pappy.Official Před 3 měsíci +107

    Sir Hopkins is first-class. I wish the rest of Hollywood would learn from him.

    • @RainerBosch-qy9fj
      @RainerBosch-qy9fj Před 3 měsíci +1

      Learn what?

    • @gapper3
      @gapper3 Před 3 měsíci +3

      Sir Anthory

    • @user-sj2hi5fn4m
      @user-sj2hi5fn4m Před 3 měsíci +2

      Sir Anthony.

    • @007gunlogo
      @007gunlogo Před 3 měsíci +8

      ​@@RainerBosch-qy9fj To worry less about ego and status, and just do the best you can with the skills you have. No entourage needed. No social media account needed. No constant public spotlight needed.

    • @tannhauser5399
      @tannhauser5399 Před měsícem

      @@RainerBosch-qy9fj - humility, not being greedy, not chasing after thier own egos, self development, internal development, being helpfull... List is long.
      But they won't as it is an entertainment industry, driven by money, greed, egos. Corpo like approach. Like always have been, so there is no surprise there at all. The same with fashion industry, sport and so on (not even talking about corporate greed and approach). All money, profit and next year stock market price (depending which hedge fund is owning which movie studio at the moment).
      Ricky Gervais Opening Monologue from the Golden Globes 2020 is just a proof of that. That nobody in Hollydood cares. Just laughs here and there and that's it.
      It's been like that since early 1920-1930 - especially if you read some of the statements, and memoirs from the actors and actresses from that age. Pure greed, abuse, and so called "casting counch". All of that has been there since the beginning, even in the "silent age of cinema".
      So hearing somebody like Anthony Hopkins, and some (few) other actors here and there, is actually refreshing. Pure life philosophy, and a pleasure to hear from the mainstream actor.

  • @koen8185
    @koen8185 Před 3 měsíci +63

    'I do know that I know I know nothing...' ,
    how very right .
    A wise man is he who knows he knows nothing ,
    a fool is he who thinks he knows everything .

    • @caobita
      @caobita Před 3 měsíci +7

      Yup, the fool thinks that he's a wise man meanwhile the wise man knows himself to be a fool

    • @koen8185
      @koen8185 Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@caobita Hopkins in the picture above as the British Socrates .

    • @pooman2
      @pooman2 Před 2 měsíci +3

      “A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wiseman knows himself to be a fool” - shakespere

    • @jeff_forsythe
      @jeff_forsythe Před měsícem +1

      Not exactly, a wise man knows many things and a fool does not care..........falun dafa

    • @user-om2tz4tc3p
      @user-om2tz4tc3p Před měsícem +1

      I care too much. I wish I could do something but I will never be believable. I've done almost everything to tarnish my personal self without any regard because of my pain and shame, remorse. I just now started to believe in myself. How could I get anyone else to believe in me. I'm afraid I'll just make things worse. My inaction is strictly due to fear of hurting people I love and I don't even know if anyone loves me

  • @acatinthecradle
    @acatinthecradle Před 4 měsíci +133

    Sir Anthony Hopkins is such an inspiration and very wise man. Love the way he thinks and he's a fantastic actor!

    • @alabar9795
      @alabar9795 Před 4 měsíci +5

      Hes a fantastic "man" Anthony appeals to us because he does what we all know we secretly desire to do.... live without fear

    • @mehowkielan1984
      @mehowkielan1984 Před 3 měsíci

      Yeah he's so wise and basically abandoned his daughter and has no relationship with her. Narcissistic, self obsessed and talking pseudo mystical bs that suits his narrative. The real problem of our civilization is that we worship dysfunctional egoistic people that want to feel special.

    • @stuartmarkrigby
      @stuartmarkrigby Před 3 měsíci

      Perhaps this is why Joe Black is such a great film. Thx Mr Hopkins

    • @Darkroom69
      @Darkroom69 Před 3 měsíci +2

      He just be acting. He's good at it. But who wrote the script?

    • @reginamay1
      @reginamay1 Před 3 měsíci

      He s no longer a sir as he has taken our US Citizenship

  • @zachcurtis1283
    @zachcurtis1283 Před 4 měsíci +228

    Hopkins sounds like a Zen Buddhist. Very wise man.

    • @Supersonic
      @Supersonic Před 4 měsíci +25

      I think many agnostic think this way. Agnostic people tend to be fine with not knowing, but still don't doubt the idea of a greater force

    • @oliverk191
      @oliverk191 Před 4 měsíci +14

      It’s worth listening to David Bowie, he’s also very wise and also was an alcoholic and addict, seems when people go through hell they wise up!

    • @Shmyrk
      @Shmyrk Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@Supersonicautistic*

    • @Supersonic
      @Supersonic Před 3 měsíci +6

      @@Shmyrk stay salty

    • @Shmyrk
      @Shmyrk Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@Supersonic 🥴

  • @zayatoon
    @zayatoon Před 4 měsíci +37

    "Everything in the world is magic, except for the magician." - Anthony Hopkins, Westworld

  • @glenndespres5317
    @glenndespres5317 Před 4 měsíci +35

    Just when I thought I admired this man plenty enough, I find out his views on life are so open minded and like mine.

  • @s1xteenhunn1d
    @s1xteenhunn1d Před 4 měsíci +61

    Anthony and Jim Carrey should have a sitdown and a heart to heart talk

    • @user-ny3ww9cw2g
      @user-ny3ww9cw2g Před 3 měsíci +8

      Most Excellent Idea!!

    • @stephenpowstinger733
      @stephenpowstinger733 Před 3 měsíci +3

      Jim Carey? I thought his life was a wreck.

    • @robiduff
      @robiduff Před 3 měsíci

      @@stephenpowstinger733the media told you this. he is spot on on so many things its scary. i have a lot of respect for him after learning about evrything years after he spoke out.

    • @KootBear
      @KootBear Před 2 měsíci +3

      agreed, they both are so deep, another level!

    • @lawrencesmith5991
      @lawrencesmith5991 Před 2 měsíci

      @@stephenpowstinger733"Keep thinking Butch, that's what your good at".

  • @Bevzthejcs
    @Bevzthejcs Před 3 měsíci +40

    A superb human being. No saint, but no sinner either. He is all of us. He's seen something important in his life we should all pay attention to. Thanks for the video!

    • @Robbo822
      @Robbo822 Před 2 měsíci

      Why does he always play the antagonist of you know who?

    • @chuckmartel1874
      @chuckmartel1874 Před 2 měsíci

      You have chosen the path of NPC.

  • @zerozilch
    @zerozilch Před 4 měsíci +30

    Some men have forgotten more than others will ever know.

    • @TimGreig
      @TimGreig Před 2 měsíci +1

      That. Is a mic drop quote

  • @kitersrefuge7353
    @kitersrefuge7353 Před 3 měsíci +17

    I sat in the front row, with my GF in London, at Shaftsbury theatre, watching this man, do his magic. It was mesmerizing...and when you look eye to eye at the man on stage, it sends shivers down one's spine...it was the magical Summer of 1983 and the play was M-Butterfly, and we just by chance walked up, and got front row seats, at a student discount. Magical.

  • @audreywitko1445
    @audreywitko1445 Před 4 měsíci +52

    Thank you are sharing this wonderful aspect of the man. He has my deep respect not only as an actor, but has a conscious human. Blessings in Absolute Abundance! ✨💖✨

  • @friedaelizabethchorlton8654
    @friedaelizabethchorlton8654 Před 4 měsíci +37

    Wonderful man, a real sage with a deep soul of goodness.

  • @Northbankgooner69
    @Northbankgooner69 Před 4 měsíci +21

    The greatest actor in the world speaks so much sense to me.

  • @allisonhunt1134
    @allisonhunt1134 Před 4 měsíci +26

    I deeply admire this man.

  • @GodsFistFighter
    @GodsFistFighter Před 2 měsíci +12

    When man fears nothing, his faith becomes absolute. And then gains a understanding of life most will never know.❤

  • @rv-roadtx9781
    @rv-roadtx9781 Před 4 měsíci +33

    Alan Watts and many more gifted people who saw through the veil have said something similar. Good to hear the same from a man who has lived such a different life than I

    • @JohnJewel
      @JohnJewel Před 3 měsíci

      I see it and have also achieved, terrestrial time travel and watched myself preparing for a rock Concert on A planet Man made in the future or the past. Same thing in a dream. You see? I've sat with Sir. Hopkins in Malibu at the Church on the Hill at an A.A. group. I don't drink but I get mad. Irish anger so I spoke to him about it. Just lower the volume of your voice and whisper through your anger >[ jewell ]

  • @trajanz9557
    @trajanz9557 Před 4 měsíci +29

    Anthony Hopkins, the way he sees and lives this life. Just... *chef's kiss*

  • @robinparker6178
    @robinparker6178 Před 3 měsíci +27

    I adore Anthony Hopkins and Morgan Freeman . These men are pinnacles of honour and class.

    • @stephenberry8658
      @stephenberry8658 Před 2 měsíci

      My favourite human beings

    • @hanac5751
      @hanac5751 Před měsícem

      morgan freeman aint no free man no more, sold his soul to farmacopea.

    • @jeff_forsythe
      @jeff_forsythe Před měsícem

      only in the movies

    • @stephenberry8658
      @stephenberry8658 Před měsícem

      @@jeff_forsythe not only in the movies..
      But Keanu Reeves is at another level of decency

    • @jeff_forsythe
      @jeff_forsythe Před měsícem +1

      @@stephenberry8658 I do not really care about actors and how do you know what is inside another's heart?

  • @willymwambaru-ez9ic
    @willymwambaru-ez9ic Před 4 měsíci +39

    A path to reality is having a delusional mind and you'll find out everyone is the same, the ego is the one that separates us.

  • @samoralink8952
    @samoralink8952 Před 4 měsíci +40

    You can tell through his life philosophy that he was a great student of the great Alan Watts👏🏾🙌🏾

    • @samoralink8952
      @samoralink8952 Před 4 měsíci +3

      @@Gh0stParty so you’ve “listened to all his lectures” but missed all the themes talking about how life is nothing but an illusion, a play of energy, and there is absolutely nothing to be afraid of.. always approach with a childlike sense of wonder. Which is what Anthony Hopkins is talking about. Yeah I don’t know which lectures are these you listened to and missed all these themes throughout his lectures. This whole video is full of Alan Watts philosophies for those have truly studied Alan✌🏾✌🏾

    • @veradowns2736
      @veradowns2736 Před 3 měsíci

      Was?

    • @mehowkielan1984
      @mehowkielan1984 Před 3 měsíci

      Yeah he's so wise and basically abandoned his daughter and has no relationship with her. Narcissistic, self obsessed and talking pseudo mystical bs that suits his narrative. The real problem of our civilization is that we worship dysfunctional egoistic people that want to feel special.

    • @adunnou2075
      @adunnou2075 Před 3 měsíci +7

      Its not alans stuff, this has been around forever and is everywhere, alan was just on of the countless who taught this

    • @bootynbass9436
      @bootynbass9436 Před 3 měsíci

      most is alan watts re re

  • @robincowley3738
    @robincowley3738 Před 3 měsíci +10

    His voice is one of the most soothing calming wonderful voices I've ever heard.

  • @ArtLoverScotland
    @ArtLoverScotland Před 3 měsíci +12

    I have always so admired this man, now I know why. He is so REAL

  • @vincentasks
    @vincentasks Před 4 měsíci +51

    Everything is in your mind, don't you know? That beautiful imagination.

    • @abcaka1236
      @abcaka1236 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Quite right, everything is via the mind. How else???

    • @shamaniccolonic777
      @shamaniccolonic777 Před 3 měsíci +4

      Not so. The ego-mind is just another appearance in consciousness. Your true self, the Self is above all as pure awareness, ever unaffected. The mind can be completely silenced, it only persists because you find it novel and exciting. If you are as bad of a friend to your mind as it is to you your connection will cease. Once silent you will see that life goes on and is handled far better than you ever could. Then you will understand that you are not the doer in its entirety. The mind can get a taste though, just question this ~ How did you type this? How did you initiate the subatomic processes that lead to muscle contraction and coordination? If you really are the doer then you should know exactly how this is done, no? Or is everything just happening?

    • @sevyorum-hf5lt
      @sevyorum-hf5lt Před 3 měsíci

      Beautiful mind

    • @jaredking2610
      @jaredking2610 Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@shamaniccolonic777. I believe the question at hand is a metaphysical one.

  • @todddrexler4393
    @todddrexler4393 Před 4 měsíci +19

    Buddhism is saying the same thing. The reality we perceive is an illusion.

    • @TechnoViking__
      @TechnoViking__ Před 3 měsíci +1

      That doesn’t mean that you jump in front of a train. Because it will be very real I assure you.

    • @ALF8892
      @ALF8892 Před měsícem

      Hindus believe it too. It's called Mya. Buddha was a Hindu Prince

  • @transmutationdotse
    @transmutationdotse Před 2 měsíci +8

    What is mentioned to be overlooked.. Is love.

  • @nanny287
    @nanny287 Před 2 měsíci +10

    Very philosophical; I love it. “Life is but a tale of sound and fury…signifying nothing.” Despite this famous quotation, life is a miracle. I would love to chat with Sir Anthony Hopkins about philosophy, acting, and his life lessons. Huge kudos to this great man.❤

  • @larryaldrich4351
    @larryaldrich4351 Před 3 měsíci +12

    Sir Anthony has a lucid way of putting things.

  • @kimberlysauber5601
    @kimberlysauber5601 Před 3 měsíci +14

    He’s always been my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE ACTOR and every time I hear him speak, I enjoy him even MORE. I LOOOOVE to just have a long meal with Anthony and talk. I’d adore a long conversation with him. Be a dream come true, in my life of a dream. ❤

    • @Robbo822
      @Robbo822 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Even if he fed you with your brain?

  • @MUFC-nu7ie
    @MUFC-nu7ie Před 4 měsíci +11

    What a man. A fine soul indeed.

  • @garyhowtobluetoothjblheadp3583
    @garyhowtobluetoothjblheadp3583 Před 4 měsíci +12

    A very sacred treasure is our Sir Anthony !

  • @petertaylor8922
    @petertaylor8922 Před 4 měsíci +9

    At that moment Hopkins changed his life by acting (pretending)....this initiated huge amounts of emotions not only for him but for his audience, who relished in his acting (pretending) as they too became addicted to the inner emotions that were evoked.
    Not realizing that those very emotions relied on ones subjective perspective....which in reality achieved very little other than a belief in an Illusion.
    And that is man's weakness...his insistence that his imagination is real.
    (Real as in tangible, measurable & verifiable by others)
    This weakness is prayed upon by all religions.

  • @Couchchilller
    @Couchchilller Před 4 měsíci +27

    Ich bin sehr überrascht und beeindruckt von Anthony Hopkins. Hätte nicht gedacht das er so tiefgründig und Weise ist. 😮

    • @caobita
      @caobita Před 3 měsíci +2

      Definitiv ein sehr weiser Mann und außerdem ein exzellenter Schauspieler

    • @iap-ug3oy
      @iap-ug3oy Před 2 měsíci +1

      Why would you think he would not be so wise….you obviously had not watched many of his films ..Or maybe you have and never understood what he was about…..

    • @Couchchilller
      @Couchchilller Před měsícem

      @@iap-ug3oy In den Filmen in denen er mitspielt hatt er doch nicht die Drehbücher dazu verfasst, oder? Weiß nicht wie er in eventuell vorhandenen Dokus oder Interviews so für Sachen von sich gibt, da ich ihn nur aus einigen Filmen her kenne. Wie sein Leben privat so verlaufen ist, oder was ihn so geprägt hatt, dazu kann ich nichts sagen

  • @maryquinn6661
    @maryquinn6661 Před 4 měsíci +11

    Amen Sir Anthony Hopkins! Life is a beautiful unfolding mystery!!
    🙏❤️

  • @apostolia2124
    @apostolia2124 Před 4 měsíci +24

    "Hearts in Atlantis", "Meet Joe Black", those performences of his i keep in my mind and heart, inspirational personality indeed, thank you.

    • @dachsrottweiler
      @dachsrottweiler Před 4 měsíci +1

      Yes, and Fracture :)

    • @apostolia2124
      @apostolia2124 Před 4 měsíci

      @@dachsrottweiler i haven't seen this one yet.

    • @ebibomodi4259
      @ebibomodi4259 Před 4 měsíci +3

      Yes. Meet Joe black!

    • @theresefournier3269
      @theresefournier3269 Před 3 měsíci

      Thank you... I rarely watch any of Hollywood's movies but i do appreciate his❤

    • @chatteyj
      @chatteyj Před 3 měsíci

      Never seen either only films I see Sir Tony in he plays an evil bugger; wolfman, silence of the lambs etc.

  • @mrs.cavalier3705
    @mrs.cavalier3705 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Mr. Hopkins, I have been following your career for many years, have watched all of your films, and can say candidly that you are one of the ELITE group of Actors still alive and working to this day. This group is one in which actors can portray believable personas of times past. I have never been disappointed in any of the films you starred.
    You have been, "Over-the-Top", “Playing difficult parts", and "Always convincing”, and “one of the last true professionals of the movie industry.” Thank you for inspiring, motivating, and bringing me to heart-felt tears on many occassions in viewing your films.
    Many actors in this elite category are disappearing at an alarming rate. The world has gone to rot. Meaning, many people, like fruit...if you have one piece of rotten fruit in the bunch, you can expect the rest of the group to follow suit.
    Mr. Hopkins, I will continue to follow your career, and hope you are living a truly wonderful life, as you have brought so much joy, drama, comedy, and love into our home over the years.
    Sincerely,
    Mrs. Wilma Cavalier
    Phoenix, AZ

  • @TheEmperorAs
    @TheEmperorAs Před 6 dny +1

    I still get chills thinking about his performance as Dr. Ford in Westworld. Such a deep character coming to live through such a master of an actor.

  • @MadisonBriggsArtchick
    @MadisonBriggsArtchick Před 3 měsíci +8

    This is wonderful. He is an amazing man and so very talented. We need more humble people like him in this narcissistic culture.

  • @dolly_llamas_tea
    @dolly_llamas_tea Před 3 měsíci +10

    Sir Anthony Hopkins knows a thing or two. It’s beautiful to see Hollywood actors with their eyes open. We all need to wake up and realize there is something greater than us at work here. ❤

    • @blazingsaddles7145
      @blazingsaddles7145 Před 3 měsíci

      Correct, it’s Jesus Christ 🙏🏼

    • @scepticalchymist
      @scepticalchymist Před 3 měsíci

      @@blazingsaddles7145 When do religious people stop to spill their offensive nonsense everywhere?

    • @iap-ug3oy
      @iap-ug3oy Před 2 měsíci +1

      Anthony Hopkins is Welsh……

  • @roslynbrien2322
    @roslynbrien2322 Před 3 dny +1

    The greatest actor of all time. I have met him many times & I will not ruin my experience with him by reading the comments. If I learnt anything from this man it was to "trust self."

  • @FictionCautious
    @FictionCautious Před 3 měsíci +5

    And somehow these words made it's way to me just when I needed them. Fascinating and wondrous this life is.

  • @TheJamesOutlaw
    @TheJamesOutlaw Před 3 měsíci +4

    I would have said this was nonsense last year. Since then I have woken up spiritually and it really hits home hearing this come from my favourite actor 😊

  • @johnstarter777
    @johnstarter777 Před 3 měsíci +7

    Pray for this guy you, who are loving him...
    Let's not let him lost... !!!

    • @TonyEnglandUK
      @TonyEnglandUK Před 3 měsíci

      The choice of gods to pray to are certainly not short in numbers.

  • @kloud1174
    @kloud1174 Před 3 měsíci +3

    I ran into Mr. Hopkins while he was on the set filming at Union Station in Washington DC. Didn't actually meet him, but ill never forget it. He's like the F40 of actor's, legendary!!

  • @stephenmeeker2489
    @stephenmeeker2489 Před 3 měsíci +6

    Sir Anthony Hopkins is the personification of awareness through reflection. Love his humble humility which seems to be in short supply, lately.This video made me reflect that certainty is dangerous and can be used as an excuse to to create needless harm and suffering. What would the ego do without it. Thanks, Anthony for this video.

    • @Lukebryanoffice4
      @Lukebryanoffice4 Před měsícem

      Thanks you so much for all your supporting may god bless you dear

  • @jeanne9983
    @jeanne9983 Před 2 měsíci +3

    I adore Anthony, ever since I was 17 I love his gift to act in such an incredible way, such a beautiful soul ♥️

  • @krystynaciesiolkiewicz2881
    @krystynaciesiolkiewicz2881 Před 3 měsíci +3

    What a remarkable soul. Thank you . This is the big illusion . . .'life is but a dream' Shakespeare.

  • @pprehn5268
    @pprehn5268 Před 3 měsíci +4

    At 80 years old remind myself, that yea, today was the tomorrow I was worrying about yesterday. My ego is training me not to .believe. whatever that really means, in anything. I do engulf those aspects of life I encounter and will entertain ideas, but that doesn't require believing. This video brought me to tears, thank you, you said it all so eloquently

  • @colleenjohnston6012
    @colleenjohnston6012 Před 3 měsíci +9

    His aura and frequencies are from another time. You can see it in his energy field. Amazing

  • @JorgeRodriguez-iq7vb
    @JorgeRodriguez-iq7vb Před 4 měsíci +7

    One of very few worth admiring.

  • @eluneadore3471
    @eluneadore3471 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Sir Anthony Hopkins was in my opinion, (and for sure much millions more) a very special Gift for our world....what ever it is, what ever it means to any single human out there in our lifetime living Planet ☘️❣️ Thank you Sir Anthony Hopkins 🌟

  • @klaatu368
    @klaatu368 Před 4 měsíci +6

    Thank you, T&H, for making this available.

  • @johnbonacci128
    @johnbonacci128 Před 4 měsíci +5

    I think I have been in the presence of the light you generated in the no time worlds. Anthony I know you live through the light and may we all find the journey we create.
    Love

  • @cargobob7817
    @cargobob7817 Před 3 měsíci +9

    It's so easy and irresistible to claim that life is just an illusion when you already have everything.

    • @reginamay1
      @reginamay1 Před 3 měsíci +6

      He worked dam hard for it and overcame addiction!!

    • @redfaux74
      @redfaux74 Před 3 měsíci +1

      ​@@reginamay1 - That doesn't even remotely make sense if its all a dream. It's not possible to be addicted if this is a dream. It's not possible to work if nothing matters. People this dumb destroy everything they say with their words.
      All he has to do to prove what he's saying is give me his money. Then I'll believe he believes it. Until then.... his words are just like a fart. Repulsive and rude in this reality. Be polite and remove yourself until you can make a sensible noise.

    • @redfaux74
      @redfaux74 Před 3 měsíci

      Bob - I agree. He's one of those arrogant types that likes to pretend he's the smarter person in the room. That's all he's good at tho.... pretending and making useless noise that makes him look dumb. You'd think of he really believed that he would spend more money helping others who have nothing.
      Do any of these Hollywood perverts give half of their multiple millions to make other continents a super lush continent? All the money they've earned here, in the USA, you'd think they could end poverty here if ALL of those big mouths tried to. Nothing but arrogant air. Disgusting.

    • @Klazi
      @Klazi Před 3 měsíci +4

      there is something deeper he's talking about here than the seeming material world dude

    • @redfaux74
      @redfaux74 Před 3 měsíci

      @Klazi - Are you certain of that? Half way thru Anthony said he wasn't. If he's not certain and just rambling.... and you people think that's genius? That's a sad show for sure.
      Jesus Christ claimed to be certain ("I am the way, the truth and the life") and He rose from the dead. That matters. That makes everyone of us matter. That means this is a test and everything matters. DNA is a blueprint. It didn't just form by accident. That's genius.

  • @MarkTebbutt-bv2qb
    @MarkTebbutt-bv2qb Před 4 měsíci +5

    One soul I would love to sit and talk to for a while

    • @theresefournier3269
      @theresefournier3269 Před 3 měsíci

      Since eternity is YAHsomely real to me, i think you verily will.
      And so will i ❤

  • @user-zb3jw8un6s
    @user-zb3jw8un6s Před 4 měsíci +8

    he understands the camera is always rolling; that is what, i imagine, allows him to create as a consummate thespian..yes, it's always a take, so give it your best;

  • @IMSerious209
    @IMSerious209 Před 3 měsíci +3

    A very respectful portrait of an exceptional person. Thank you for compiling it.

  • @Nemo59646
    @Nemo59646 Před 3 měsíci +3

    He makes me miss my friend Ivor Brown from Aberdare, such a sweet,gentle spoken man. That Welsh lilt.

  • @retf054ewte3
    @retf054ewte3 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Anthony Hopkins is the most active old actor ever lived. amazing

  • @nikkisummers3983
    @nikkisummers3983 Před měsícem +1

    "Pure Genius" And an Inspiration.

  • @rozanncoppin6467
    @rozanncoppin6467 Před 4 měsíci +8

    Love Anthony Hopkins. Special human.❤❤❤❤

  • @elevans5758
    @elevans5758 Před 4 měsíci +6

    A extraordinary man who inspires on every level. I am grateful that he was part of my life through his work and through sharing himself so graciously.
    I would have loved to shake his hand at least once, but I can only do it in my imagination.

  • @tammereynolds
    @tammereynolds Před 19 dny +2

    If you can believe in anyway believe in life

  • @biopticcyclops403
    @biopticcyclops403 Před 4 měsíci +3

    His words resound deeply. What a beautiful light! ✨❤️

  • @digiroj
    @digiroj Před 4 měsíci +6

    i was going to share this. i changed my mind right at the last quote. Read it and then think about it. We don't think enough about priorities. In a sane world of sovereign people homelessness, poverty, starvation, cancer, selfish hierarchy are things we read about in history books. They don't happen when we know we are all sovereign... equal.. men and women. This is our duty.. to learn how to express our sovereignty. ro. i love you 🕯❤🙏

    • @maurogarreffa6719
      @maurogarreffa6719 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Sad hearing someone so clever so talented, living in a fairy tale dream, when the rest of world is living in a nightmare,
      To easy believing in nothing, when in reality where all alive at this moment in history living in a world full of uncertainty.
      Sorry to wake you Sis, just thought to let you know WW3 is looking promising, so best stop dreaming and staying awake right now🤜🏻🤛🏻🕶👍🏻

    • @deborahhenderson4929
      @deborahhenderson4929 Před 4 měsíci +1

      So tell me...what difference would your so called "being awake" make to this world? It would ONLY have an effect on yourself...surely! Xx (said with utmost respect towards U and whatever views U MIGHT hold) Xx's and a big hug.

    • @mezanian
      @mezanian Před 3 měsíci +1

      ​@@maurogarreffa6719scurry to your corner, you create the doom in your life.

  • @judydobson4040
    @judydobson4040 Před 3 měsíci

    He is a genus. Acting keeps him alive.

  • @drewdog2534
    @drewdog2534 Před 3 měsíci +1

    One of the biggest reasons I love Anthony Hopkins, I don't know him for anything other than his art. Class act through an through. A person from any background can appreciate him.

  • @billpetersen298
    @billpetersen298 Před 4 měsíci +3

    His wisdom is so inspiring. He is like a western Dalai Lama. We can feel him, in us.

  • @cindywiner2772
    @cindywiner2772 Před 4 měsíci +7

    LOVELY.

  • @jenniferdumet916
    @jenniferdumet916 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Omg Dear Sir you are stunning. Spot-on in Every way

  • @CarldeFigueiredo-lf2gc
    @CarldeFigueiredo-lf2gc Před 4 měsíci +2

    How wise and authentic he is! So true what he says about the power of the ego; and certainty!

  • @josephspano8145
    @josephspano8145 Před 4 měsíci +4

    For some of us life is a dream. For others life is a nightmare.

  • @markbradley2367
    @markbradley2367 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Simply beautiful, thank you, Sir Anthony.

  • @WhitemosstheWise
    @WhitemosstheWise Před 4 měsíci +2

    I've always adored Hopkins. He's so captivating when he speaks and for those who don't know he's even composed a wonderful Waltz - And the Waltz Goes On performed by André Rieu & his Johann Strauss Orchestra

  • @davids6194
    @davids6194 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I'm going to watch this over and over and share it.
    This makes more sense than anything I have seen on CZcams......

  • @alpinro
    @alpinro Před 4 měsíci +5

    Nice video, however the poem quoted by sir Hopkins does not belong to Edgar Allan Poe, as you indicated. It's a poem called "Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam" by Ernest Dowson.
    "THEY are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
    Love and desire and hate:
    I think they have no portion in us after
    We pass the gate.
    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."

  • @rustygrunert5316
    @rustygrunert5316 Před 4 měsíci +9

    Beautiful soul 💚☮🌏🛸

  • @trebell885
    @trebell885 Před 3 měsíci +2

    I've always appreciated the vehicle that drive's me. Two feet & a heart beat. Never had a licence. No car. The water air & earth sustain me.
    & I'm almost 60.

  • @Istandby666
    @Istandby666 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Yesterday is gone.
    Tomorrow is not guaranteed.
    All you have is today.
    What you do with it is up to you.

  • @bingowashisnameo80
    @bingowashisnameo80 Před 4 měsíci +6

    This made me like Anthony Hopkins even more and I have always liked his performances he is a great actor. This man is 82, I am 34 he still is puzzled by what I am wondering and have been wondering for the past 10 years it is refreshing to see someone with the same problem and feelings I am stuck on about life and our greater purpose.

  • @user-gf8pu2oh8f
    @user-gf8pu2oh8f Před 4 měsíci +3

    Absolutely Anthony, absolutely.

  • @AnnabelleJARankin
    @AnnabelleJARankin Před 2 měsíci +1

    Can't help always remembering him saying 'the smell of the fifties' in an advert
    and my childhood senses rushing back to me!

  • @justme.1st
    @justme.1st Před 2 měsíci +1

    Love Sir Anthony Hopkins & his philosophy rings true on so many levels, thank you for posting his important message ❤

  • @steal4526
    @steal4526 Před 4 měsíci +6

    Keep being!

  • @jonahvan6121
    @jonahvan6121 Před 4 měsíci +7

    Great person

  • @user-kz5cw2gj3w
    @user-kz5cw2gj3w Před 12 dny

    My tomorrow ended yesterday..there is only the present, all else is illusion. Mr. Hopkins is spot on!

  • @professorclown
    @professorclown Před 4 měsíci +2

    What an awesome, discerning, critical-thinking legend, to put the enigmatic vicissitudes, trials and tribulations of life itself so eloquently. Beautiful.

  • @roybatty2030
    @roybatty2030 Před 4 měsíci +3

    What a lovely kind, wise man. It’s a shame such wisdom and enlightenment usually comes only with great age (and often, not even then). Thanks for everything, Anthony.

    • @sharminiserasinghe3293
      @sharminiserasinghe3293 Před 3 měsíci

      @roybatty2030 such wisdom comes to the young as well but not all. They become introverts because they can't relate to others and vice versa.

    • @mezanian
      @mezanian Před 3 měsíci +1

      ​@@sharminiserasinghe3293who would listen to the young,...accept the wisdom of a child? Usually they are scorned or ridiculed by media.

    • @Lukebryanoffice4
      @Lukebryanoffice4 Před měsícem

      Thanks you so much for supporting dear may GOD always bless you guys

  • @BaritoneUkeBeast4Life
    @BaritoneUkeBeast4Life Před 4 měsíci +5

    This was fascinating, I am a huge fan of Sir Anthony Hopkins, and a Lion in Winter is still one of my favorite movies of all time. I had no idea he was so spiritual and a follower of non dualism. The only thing I would like to add to his quote at the end, is that there actually is no thinker. You never think, have never thought you are only the observer of thoughts. The body mind has thoughts running through it, but they are not your thoughts. There is also no doer, you have never done anything, the body mind is on autopilot like a character in a movie, you have no control, no say, in what the character does and are only the silent witness to an illusionary person that is merely conditioning doing its own thing.

    • @paradisecaregiving7126
      @paradisecaregiving7126 Před 4 měsíci +1

      🕉️🙏
      Very well said and clearly observed. What we Are can only be pointed to and then words fail.
      The Great Mystery, ineffable.
      Om,
      Shanti Shanti Shanthi
      HariH Om
      Tat Sat
      🕉️

    • @KilayaCiriello
      @KilayaCiriello Před 3 měsíci

      Would you say that there is no one who suffers even when, say, they are tortured by some cruel person? And if no one suffers then does anyone do anything wrong when they hurt another, outside of the dictates of state law? If someone gets away with murder, for example, will they experience some type of karmic payback in the future? How could they, if there is no doer involved?

    • @BaritoneUkeBeast4Life
      @BaritoneUkeBeast4Life Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@KilayaCiriello yes exactly their are no persons, nobody to be a victim, nobody causing pain, nobody receiving pain. That is just a story you’re telling yourself. When you dream sometimes someone in your dream is doing something bad to you or vice versa, but in reality was there really anyone getting hurt or anyone even there to begin with? When you wake from that dream you enter into another one, this one. In this dream you think your a thing, a person, that things happen to and that you and others do things. You are only pure consciousness or awareness. If you were a person you would be the emotions, you would be the thoughts, you would be the personality, but your not, your only the observer of those things and you can’t control them. Your not in the body that you identify with anymore than your in my body or your neighbors. Your relationship to your self image that you call you is very much like a character you watch on a tv show. You can't control what happens to the character on a tv show and you can't control their choices and decisions, just like you can't control the character called you that is nothing more than conditioning on autopilot.

    • @KilayaCiriello
      @KilayaCiriello Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life So this person who suffers pain and sadness doesn't exist? Will this non-existent pain ever end or do I have to just grin and bear my non-existent pain till the death of this non-existent body or maybe till the end of this non-existent universe or maybe for non-existent eternity?

    • @BaritoneUkeBeast4Life
      @BaritoneUkeBeast4Life Před 3 měsíci

      @@KilayaCiriello Pain and sadness are not happening to you, your merely noticing it. You can’t be hurt as there is no-one here to be hurt. You are not a someone or a thing, you are nothing, an Aware nothing, that notices that there are feelings and emotions present. But they are not your emotions, anymore than a sad character in a movie or tv show is you. You’re like an audience member that is caught up and immersed in the drama taking place on a reality tv show, except you are very, immersed in this experience as you have deeply identified with a particular form, that you have created a self image of. Yes there is emotion present, right now there may be sadness, but emotions are like thoughts and the weather, they come and go and aren’t you. You are untouched by all emotions and all things physical, just like the sky is untouched by clouds including storm clouds. Can anyone or anything hurt or affect space? You are the silent space that everything is happening in and you’re identifying with the forms and confusing as you.

  • @donnieparker7535
    @donnieparker7535 Před 3 měsíci +1

    An awesome & humble man. 🙏🏼

  • @Toonces666
    @Toonces666 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Sir Anthony is just lovely. Thank you for putting that together. The end quote is quite something.

  • @avisjohnson35
    @avisjohnson35 Před 4 měsíci +4

    I love love this. Thank you for sharing your point of view and helping me to become closer to your spirit. One of the greatest actors i've ever seen peace and blessings love and mission

  • @yilaneevanson6928
    @yilaneevanson6928 Před 4 měsíci +4

    💞Thank you💞