Aidan Gillen
Irish actor
Cleaning around the feet of John Malkovich with industrial carpet cleaner while he was trying to learn lines in the foyer of a theatre.
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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What most recently made you cry?
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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How close have you come to death?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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Selling double glazing.
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Shane MacGowan
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Helping to slaughter farmyard animals as a kid; watching while my aunties cut them up to get their guts out and seeing eggs floating around in the hens. That made me become a vegetarian.
James Norton
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I worked in the customer services department of a mobile phone gambling company and it was very depressing, because the people calling up were usually not happy.
I had to clean up the sump pump [toilet system] in my house because my sister and I flushed things we shouldn’t have.
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People seeing their own greatness, rather than buying into their fears.
Watching the 2015 movie Aloha.
A new song just finished.
I was caught by a wave while swimming at night with friends in Southampton. That shook me.
My manager and friend Colin Lester, who has protected me through the good times and the bad.
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