Mucking out pigs on a farm when I was 15.
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I once had to dress up as [fast food chain] Supermac’s bunny during a St Patrick’s Day parade and shake people’s hands. Kids kept trying to take off my gloves and punching my bunny head. It was awful.
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Siri Hustvedt
American novelist, essayist, poet
I was a floor model briefly at Bloomingdale’s in New York in 1979. I hated it. When no one was watching, I would lock myself in the toilet and read.
Roger Allam
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Picking tiny bits of glass out of long grass for Haringey council, 45 years ago.
A lot of awful gigs. You can’t become a successful comedian without dying on your arse more times than you can remember.
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Missing a cue on stage. I had to come on and move a piece of furniture with another actor and I completely forgot. I looked at the monitor and said, “Why is he standing on his own?” And somebody said, “Aren’t you meant to help him?”
Weirdly, sometimes exhaustion keeps me awake. If I am really tired, I won’t sleep well.
To trust in the process.
A sense of home.
Oversharing. I long to be intimately connected to people and sometimes, among strangers, I don’t read the room.
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