Anthony Hopkins - What's The Meaning Of Life | One Of The Most Eye Opening Speeches

I am fascinated by the dream world that we live in as we dream, we dream in our sleep and that moment before sleep when the subconscious mind swirls and I might have my own personal feeling, is that and this is beyond religion or spirituality , is that all this is an illusion. Maya, because my

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has been like this sitting here tonight 40 years ago, I want to come to the Actors Studio. None of that makes any left-brain logical sense to me. They have been books written about people younger or older that there is something in us that deeply understands our nature more deeply than anything we can even begin to understand and that at certain times in our lives we receive little signs, little glimpses.

I had a moment where I decided to change my

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by taking a trend that says it's yours if you want it and I don't know how that happens, but it happened to me, so that's

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I've tried to put in this nature movie. dreamlike of life. What do you think is happening? I don't know. I believe there is a higher consciousness in everyone. of us that we touch sometimes I don't know if I believe in anything, I mean, I've come out, but I think that

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ever it is that should be talked about throughout the centuries, I think it's within us, I I mean Abram stuff, notable things have happened in my life just wishing or asking for something to be a little healthier and I don't think I'm an agnostic.

I guess someone can help me or whatever and there's something in there. We will respond I think I think we have to make our lives because life is one thing. I have to believe in the power of life. My life in this acting game has been just one long, drawn out surprise. I'm surprised that I. I'm still here, for example, when I was a little kid starting out at the YMCA, poor, tall, but I had no idea what I was going to do because I didn't know what else to do. It's better than working for a living but I used to jump behind those double decker buses and hold on to the white pole I never wanted to go in I said love swinging on that thing you know the wind in my face that's been a metaphor for my life in In this business there are no shortcuts to happiness.

You have to live your life if it feels good to you, but it is a moral tale. When I wanted to be younger, I wanted to be famous, everything happened and it doesn't feel different, it's very nice, but I don't take it seriously, I take it. It's the small grain of salt that we all sell out to some extent and I was told I sold my soul for Hollywood, well maybe that's the case. They told me I sold out. Success does not necessarily bring you unhappiness. It can bring you. A lot of happiness depends relatively on how you handle it and when you're younger it's harder to handle and as I've been around for a few years I think I have a pretty good balance but maybe it's pride talking but I feel pretty balanced.

I've been around the block a few times and you calm down and just don't take things too seriously. Do something new that you know you have to do. You can't stay in your comfort zone. What we all do we reach a certain age, we still have a comfort zone with recliners watching TV day in and day out and we get a certain agent movie sent to the end of the arrow. I'll sit and watch TV for the rest of my life. life because I have done it all sitting on my laurels, breathe, it is not worth it.

I mean, life is so short and images are so glorious in the world and horror too, but I want to see it all, so moving out of my comfort zone is essential for me, otherwise I might as well die, so that I have always done. I have broken every rule in the book and not out of malice or telling anyone I will show you that I did it for show. I showed myself I looked at Maratha I will show you one day I have done something completely new I wrote the music and I feel limitless. You know, anything with faith is you can move mountains and trust and let go and all that. something you know how nice to just throw myself at a tendon there when the negative came to my mind there were positive sounds in my head you know I would say I can't do it you and I used to meditate and visualize myself doing It's nice to visualize myself as a kind of trying and visualize myself signing that type of cards and turning them and then gradually surprising the power of the mind, what happens, you know, your muscles start to respond, it's like anything you can feel when playing the piano or Driving the car happens through relaxation and not from taking life as it is, that everything is a mystery and an illusion and that everything is random and there are no guarantees and also I don't know what to take, there is no message in it.

I must not lose it, I also know that people have a strange intuitive feeling about their nature because the totem of the subconscious mind, the nature of memory and dreams, everything is a dream, everything in this is a dream and I am not. I'm sure what the reality is, but when you look at our own lives, I mean we don't know if there is any, we don't know what we have, we just don't know what life is, we don't know what time is. we could be dreaming about this right now we don't know that's how asleep the human race is so our whole history has been a dream and sometimes it takes a little I wanted to separate people a little just pull the rug say oh this is a movie now is what you're going on in your 79+ years on this planet what do you do what's there a little bit of wisdom that you can share with us that may be something that we wouldn't know because we?

Have you overlooked it or something where you are really above everything else you think you have learned that you can share with us let's keep going never give up I think it's very good advice here you know figures, we have questions in our head and little voices that laid a rock when we were kids and all that, so I got over it, that's where I had to get over it, you know, didn't I just photograph myself on my phone when I was a little kid and I was a little boy confused how we all were now look at us we did it right boy I like that life is hard but you just have to get out of bed, get in and do it my grandfather always carried his own luggage and all our luggage, oh and we always thought: What are you doing, stop that, but now I realize that's what's right, but you're going to move on, yeah, you have to.