Sir Anthony Hopkins dreamed of becoming a musician during his younger years

Sir Anthony Hopkins dreamed of becoming a musician during his younger years.

The 88-year-old movie star has enjoyed enormous success in Hollywood, winning two Academy Awards - but Anthony initially dreamed of becoming a musician and he can't believe he's now releasing an album.

Anthony - whose new record, Life Is a Dream, features orchestral works written across more than six decades - told ITV News: "Living the life of total non-expectation, that's when the surprises happen. If you expect too much, nothing really happens."

Anthony admits it's "beyond [his] belief" that he's signed a record deal so late in life.

He said: "I mean, I can't understand it at all. Well, that sounds a bit naive, but music has always been a part of my life from a very early age and I won't go into a lot of details, but ever since I was a boy and then I didn't know what to do when I left school so I didn't have a chance of going to music college.

"So I went to the acting college, which was attached to the music college in Wales and I thought, well, I'll do it that way I get into music. But I became an actor instead."