Politics & Power Quote by Anthony Hopkins

There’s a quiet radicalism in Hopkins admitting he feels “more at home” in America than anywhere else: it’s the immigrant story stripped of sentimentality and dressed in a working actor’s pragmatism. The timeline matters. He arrives in 1974 “to do a play” - not to chase a flag, but to chase a job. That framing demystifies reinvention. America isn’t an abstract dream; it’s an itinerary, a gig that becomes a life.

The subtext is partly about permission. Hopkins, a Welsh actor formed by British institutions and their tightly policed hierarchies, hints at the appeal of a culture that lets you re-author yourself. “Then I went to L.A.” lands like a plot turn: theater to industry, craft to machine, regional identity to global brand. In Britain, the class system can feel like casting; in Los Angeles, the casting is literal, and that can be oddly liberating. You’re not born into a role; you audition.

There’s also a sly confession in the word “home.” Hopkins has played men who wear masks - Hannibal Lecter chief among them - and here he suggests the opposite: home is where the performance relaxes. For an actor, belonging isn’t just geography; it’s a sense that your eccentricities read as texture, not trouble.

Contextually, Hopkins is part of a long transatlantic pipeline of British talent that found American scale - bigger budgets, broader audiences, more second acts. The line works because it refuses the expected patriotism and offers a cooler truth: home is where the work, and the self, finally fit.