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Born
December 31, 1937 · Margam, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Birth name
Philip Anthony Hopkins

Spouses
Stella Hopkins(March 1, 2003 – present)
Jennifer Lynton(January 13, 1973 – April 30, 2002) (divorced)
Petronella Barker(September 2, 1967 – 1972) (divorced, 1 child)

QUOTES:

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 (1994)] 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.