Hopkins’s anti-social behavior

Once a notorious boozer, Anthony Hopkins now leads a quiet life, said Gabrielle Donnelly in the Daily Mail (U.K.). The actor lives in Malibu, where he paints, plays the piano, and walks on the beach. “I am happy,” says Hopkins, 75, “whatever that means.” He credits his third wife, Colombian-born Stella Arroyave, 57, with teaching him to slow down and appreciate life. “She’s a wonderful woman who likes to spend my money. But she’s very good for me. My nature is to do things very fast because I [think] I’m still 45 years old. I walk too fast and I’m always falling over, and she reminds me not to.” When Hopkins isn’t working, the couple keep to themselves. “We have people over for dinner sometimes and it’s pretty nice, but at the end of the meal, when you’ve said all you have to say, what do you do with them then? Stella does warn them. She says, ‘Tony’s very odd, he’ll get up and go to bed if he gets bored.’” He never invites actors to his house. “They’re the worst, they’ve got nothing to talk about but old movies. And yet [on set], they’re always saying, ‘Let’s get together. Let’s have dinner.’ Someone said that to Meryl Streep once and she just said, ‘Why? I don’t even know you.’”

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