‘We Did OK, Kid’: Anthony Hopkins Looks Back, Sort Of

The two-time Oscar winner’s memoir is equal parts entertaining and somehow lacking.
‘We Did OK, Kid’: Anthony Hopkins Looks Back, Sort Of
Anthony Hopkins gives a personal account of his rise to stardom in "We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir." Summit Books/Elena Torre/CC BY-SA 2.0
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In his introduction, Anthony Hopkins alerts the reader that his autobiography won’t be dripping in pathos. Consider how he frames his father, Richard Arthur Hopkins.

“Dead and gone now,” he writes. “I don’t know if he exists in another dimension—an afterlife or any of that kind of wishful thinking. But he is deep inside me, like bits of broken china.”

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