Gabby Logan
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I thought I’d be smarter by now.
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Harriet Walter
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When I got to 40 and realised I hadn’t read all the books I needed to read to understand the world.
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That Italy didn’t qualify for the World Cup this year.
Vanessa Redgrave
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To lose my fourth baby.
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When I was 19 I worked at a gay bar while I was at drama school in London. One of the guys I worked with was Glaswegian and I learned the dialect from him. The acting teacher at the school said, “Liev, you’ve got the region but you’ve missed the character entirely” because I played Jimmy Boyle in a very camp Glaswegian accent.
A car accident in British Columbia 35-40 years ago. I was driving too quickly on a dirt road and lost control of the car, and it went off a cliff and got stuck in some treetops. We were not at all hurt; we actually just climbed out.
Watching the Olympics.
Acting – it’s also the best, though.
“Not interested.” Who? Many people.
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