I don’t have anything that I want to change. I’m sure I did in the past but I can’t recall, which means it wasn’t that big a deal.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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I would have articulated aloud the comments I too often suppressed out of deference to arrogant, condescending, sexist bores.
My drinking habits.
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View profile →I feel lucky to have been in this business for as long as I have. When I think of the intake that I was with at Rada, only one other person is still an actor, an old fellow called Bill Gaunt.
I cry all the time. I like crying: it means that you’re more truly aware of a circumstance or a person or an event.
Aside from family life, which is the ultimate happiness, when I see or hear a great artist.
To be able to play the piano like Artur Schnabel.
If you have a nice drink before going to bed, you don’t stay awake at night. I like almost anything in a bottle.
Probably a suit. If you buy a good suit, it lasts beyond your lifetime.
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