Warwick Davis
English actor
Still being an actor after 36 years.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What is your greatest fear?
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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What is the worst job you have done?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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Aside from the night that my wife said yes, creating Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, and employing thousands of dancers for the last 30 years.
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David Hasselhoff
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Singing on the Berlin Wall to a million people in 1989.
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The contentment I have now.
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My one-woman show playing Emily Dickinson: two hours by myself on stage and over 50 performances. I’m really happy I had the guts to do that.
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On my deathbed thinking I wish I would have done something that I didn’t do.
You’re going to come up against brick walls in life. You’ve got to go over them, under them, around them, or crash through them, but somehow or other you’ve got to get to the other side.
Digging foundations in the freezing-cold Chicago winters.
I don’t give myself that much thought.
My recent battle with cancer.
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