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I wish I’d told my mother that, in all the years I knew her, she was never once boring. We weren’t demonstrative, so that would have meant that I loved her.
To all my teachers – I’m sorry I thought class was a paying audience.
To my kids, for my shortcomings.
If I’m ever out of line, I’m very quick to apologise and try to make amends.
An actor. Then I grew out of that and became one by default. Or sort of one: “Not really an actor”, said Michael Billington.
I’ll be at my happiest today, and probably my gloomiest at some point today, too.
No songs, please. Don’t make a fuss.
Adolescent love feels like exquisite self-indulgence. Long-term love feels like a warm bath that needs a trickle of extra hot water every now and then.
The next morning. It rarely turns out as bad as I think it’s going to be.
As a charming, helpful, solicitous, generous, loving, carefree and constantly funny companion, lover and father. Some hope of that.
Adjoa Andoh, Aidan Gillen, Alice Eve, Alison Steadman, Andrea Riseborough, Angela Griffin
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