Anthony didn’t really say that, I just that the headline was funny! What Anthony actually said was so brilliant I didn’t even want to attempt to paraphrase it concisely, but I will give you the tail-end of his beautiful, simple rant, just because I love the way he worded it: “It’s a mass enslavement and it’s kind of fascism. And it’s the androgyny of it; the androgyny of the human soul. I don’t think people think any more.” Sigh…much like my love for Tim Gunn, I love Anthony Hopkins for his genius, his dry, sardonic wit, his passion and his ability to take down a poseur with charming deftness. When Tim took down the Kardashians (an “absence of taste”), it was like my soul being French kissed by a fluffy teddy bear. And now Anthony Hopkins is taking down Paris Hilton! I’m seriously going to send Sir Anthony a muffin basket for this.
Anthony Hopkins has taken aim at Paris Hilton and the current crop of celebrity socialites, comparing them to “soulless machines”. The Silence of the Lambs actor is fed up with skinny models and stars on the red carpet who lack substance – and he’s singled out the heiress for appearing to have nothing “going on up there.”
He rants, “We’re living in a pretty strange time. I went into a shop to buy my wife some clothes and I wanted them gift-wrapped. And they had this big plasma screen on with these women on the catwalk. I thought, ‘God almighty, what have we become?’ These girls – anorexic, walking like machines, no soul.”
“You look at fashion magazines and you think, ‘What are we living in?’ You look at the red carpet, Paris Hilton, you know, these people and you think, ‘Is there anything going on up there?’ It’s a mass enslavement and it’s kind of fascism. And it’s the androgyny of it; the androgyny of the human soul. I don’t think people think any more. But maybe I’m just old.”
[From Starpulse]
Don’t you love him even more? Sir Anthony should teach a master class in being righteous. First class: “Paris Hilton is fascism.” I wonder what Day 2 would be? Something about Lindsay Lohan, probably. “The Lohans as omens of Judgment Day.”
Honestly, I hope this is the new trend in Hollywood: really cool, talented, amazing people taking the piss out of jackass celebrities. Here’s hoping!
Anthony Hopkins at the ‘Wolfman’ premiere on February 9, 2010. Credit: Revolutionpix/Fame Pictures.
All hail Hopkins. He knows the score.
Can I join in on the muffin basket??
Paris Hilton, huh? I guess this old guy went to sleep in 2006 and is just now waking up.
Now I adore him even more.
All Hail, Sir Anthony! God love him, I hope this is the new trend. It would be nice to have some thinking, intelligent, TRUE stars instead of the celebutard bunch we’ve denigrated to.
The world would be a much richer place if only the press would pay attention to truly intelligent, thoughtful artists with something meaningful to say instead of these vapid twats with nothing between their ears.
I agree with him and I LOVE the fact that he seems to be wearing a suit made entirely out of chef’s pants!
Did you mean “Whores man!”? The ones that need to hear that message would never understand it phrased like that. They would be all “Like what did that fossil say?,,,OHHHH LOOK! SHINEY!”
and he’s absolutely right. any reading of these gossip columns demonstrates that — who are these people; what actual talents do they have. it certainly seems to be viable today you become a ridiculous spectacle in either behavior or dress. but certainly not talent.
it is mass enslavement. an over-stimulating systematic bombardment of outrageously titillating luxurious images inducing a hypnotic state of perpetual want and need. it’s very difficult to break free from but most people don’t even realize that there is anything that needs to be broken away from….
I don’t get that “androgyny” stuff. Is he talking of anorexic models? (models have been quite anorexic since the late sixties…)
That dumb bitch called Paris Hilton isn’t the personification of fascism. He should’ve weigh his words, fascism precluded the right to be what you want to be and to like what you want to like, modern times give you the chance to choose who and what you want to believe in, and who is the one to bash on. If we want Paris to disappear, we should just stop talking about her, plain and simple.
His comments are quite asinine, IMHO.
OMG I love him!!! Where can I buy his perfume?
🙂
He is such a babe.
amen, anthony.
solveig – i believe, with the soulless androgyny stuff, he is referring to the fact that you can look at most runways, red carpets and mag covers and find blank eyes with nothing behind them staring out of a head that rests precariously atop a body that could just as easily belong to a 12 year old boy as an emaciated grown woman who has starved herself free of any sign of actual femininity, such as breasts and hips.
i agree andrea… that is what i pulled out of too… and i fully agree with him.
but on a side note… i love me a good train wreck chug chug chug!
Finally someone actually sees who she really is!!!! All hail Sir Anthony!!!
andrea
February 26th, 2010 at 11:26 am
solveig – i believe, with the soulless androgyny stuff, he is referring to the fact that you can look at most runways, red carpets and mag covers and find blank eyes with nothing behind them staring out of a head that rests precariously atop a body that could just as easily belong to a 12 year old boy as an emaciated grown woman who has starved herself free of any sign of actual femininity, such as breasts and hips.
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Thanks, andrea.
Fine, models have always been empty-eyed, is not news… they are just moving dummies and so are the socialites of all times.
I just want to say that the physical attributes say nothing about who you are and if you have a soul or something in the intelligence department.
Is Beyoncée “soulful” or “profound”? And what about the Kardassians? They have curves but they are as empty as the skinny girls on magazine covers. And what about the pin-ups of the fifties? They mostly look dumb and vapid.
Are Cate Blanchett and Milla Jovovich soulless?
If he is saying that most of the celebrities are vapid, empty and dumb, I agree. If he bases his opinions on appereance, he is wrong as hell.
I agree with him so much. It’s shocking that people these days like Heidi Montag, the Kardashians, etc, have millions of fans, when they have terrible personalities, absolutely nothing in their heads and contribute nothing to society-fans who say they ADMIRE them. For what??? How sad. I’m glad he said it.
“I don’t think people think any more. But maybe I’m just old.”
It’s not you Anthony! People really DON’T think anymore. Check out Bauerlein’s book, The Dumbest Generation.
Solveig: I think he was meaning mental/spiritual androgyny, with so many empty headed people in the public eye walking around repeating “OMG!!!…That’s Hot!…That’s so cool…OMG…OMG…” Him mentioning the dead eyed models he saw when buying clothes was just another observation.
I wish more legends like him would speak their minds…you know they all think it. It would disgust me too if I hit the red carpet at an awards ceremony or premier having worked my whole life winning award after award for my career, then turn around and see some chick who was in a porn and flashed her snatch walking the carpet right behind me. A total insult to the arts as a whole.
You know what saddens me most? Our acting treasures, these actors I love so much, like Sir Anthony and Sir Sean, who are actually intelligent and speak their minds, are aging, and who will replace them? These ditzes we have now, they are a shameful shadow of these fine actors.
Hey he mate me late on slamming her but I still LOVE IT! He “rocks the casbah!”
hideous suit aside, he looks good.
Way to say it Tony!
IT IS mass enslavement!! The flawless veneer costs big bucks…’look what we’ve become’…it is economically driven, any sign of scruffiness and you are not in control in hollywood. This is the way for the masses to make money, and Paris is Queen who helped put this system in place. Of course, being a ‘sir’, he can fly back to scruffy old England first class, he has the luxury of the scoff. (plus maybe he secretly would like his old wife to de-scruff a bit. 🙂 I mean what store was he shopping in? Maybe he should have visited ‘ye ole weavers market’.
I too, think that people dont think anymore.
Standing up clapping for Sir Anthony’s righteousness. And I will add my own two cents: it is a shameful American trend today that the media is more interested in the “infamous” than the “famous.”
I usually prefer men who are cleanshaven but he is rocking the facial hair. I can’t believe how much I love it on him.
the four hoursemen indeed!
Paris, Lindsey, PerezHilton, and Tila Tequila.
I’d have included the cast of jersey shore or Bret Michaels in this group, but I refuse to acknowledge their existence.
I agree completely with Andrea. :))
I don’t think she’s an actual horseman of the Apocalypse… just the horse death and pestilence come by.
@juiceinlea & French Toast
Ditto, Bravo and Well said!
is androgeny really the word he was looking for? me thinks not. sound observations tho, regardless.
Anthony Hopkins probably comes from a time when women were a bit more reserved and didn’t stumble out of cars without underwear and drunk off their asses… So he’s probably suggesting that women are starting to act like men used to… not that I entirely agree with this statement, but Anthony Hopkins can say whatever he wants and I’d be all over it cuz he’s DA MAN!!
Awww I love the fact that he was buying something (a pretty dress, perhaps?)for his wife. He is a total sweetheart.
I worship Anthony Hopkins. His talent is spectacular. Also, since he mentioned his wife, I googled to see who he was married to and he is NOT a hypocrite. He is married to a lovely, natural looking, age appropriate woman. Thank goodness there are some emotionally mature men out there who want a woman to at least have a soul.
I hope he hasn’t started drinking again.
While I love what he said, I do have to kind of laugh because Paris Hilton has been over for quite some time now, thank goodness.
Love Hopkins’ work, he’s a brilliant actor.
Bellaluna, my sentiments exactly! He is one of the best of the best! Love him!
Who’s Paris Hilton? It’s been so long since I’ve heard that name anywhere…
Here, here to Anthony!
Most people are asleep and can’t even see what he notices.
People have never been so busy, but doing what?
:Busy as hell stuffing their fat faces in front of their giant plasmas, watching the 20th re-run of the simpsons,or devoting their every spare second to some mindless computer game, or chatting with somebody they don’t even know on social networking sites, eating shit, talking shit.
He’s not old, he’s intelligent, aware and so damn right!
Solveig.. Your so off the mark. Read the article again. It makes perfect sense to me!
@jules His new wife might be age appropriate (although she’s 19 years his junior) But she’s still his third wife, and he cheated on the last two and then upgraded to new trophy wives soon after. Not that I don’t still love Sir Anthony and agree with everything he said, I’m just saying. I’m sure he’ll continue on the same pattern.