It’s hard to pick one time. I feel like I’m quite a happy person. My ninth birthday was epic, though.
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Aside from family life, which is the ultimate happiness, when I see or hear a great artist.
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Mike Wallace
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Nineteen thirty-nine. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Station WOOD, 20 bucks a week.
Living in London in the late 60s—setting my hair with beer cans and shopping for shoes in Knightsbridge.
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Standing on stage in between Robert Young and Andrew Innes, blasting away.
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Probably a suit. If you buy a good suit, it lasts beyond your lifetime.
The years between 13 and 17, which I think are very formative, and the rather arid public school upbringing I had at Harrow.
I feel lucky to have been in this business for as long as I have. When I think of the intake that I was with at Rada, only one other person is still an actor, an old fellow called Bill Gaunt.
If you have a nice drink before going to bed, you don’t stay awake at night. I like almost anything in a bottle.
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