United Kingdom, Nov. 5 -- Sir Anthony Hopkins has declared his "door is always open" to his estranged daughter Abigail.

The Silence of the Lambs actor, 87, has no relationship with his only child - who he has with first wife Petronella Barker - and recently admitted he "won't waste blood" trying to repair their rift but he's now insisted he would welcome a reconciliation at any time because he "will always be sorry for hurting her" by walking out when she was a child.

In his new autobiography We Did OK, Kid, he writes: "I hope my daughter knows that my door is always open to her. I want her to be well and happy.

"Until the day I die, I will never forget the sight of her in that crib, laughing up at me when I walked in the room the firs...