Hayley Atwell
British American actress
Everything’s disappointing when it loses its shine. I’ve lowered my expectations.
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What is the worst job you have done?
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How close have you come to death?
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What keeps you awake at night?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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That I wasn't Indiana Jones.
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Vanessa Redgrave
British actress and activist
To lose my fourth baby.
Monty Don
English horticulturist, broadcaster, and writer
At the time, losing our business, home and all our possessions in 1991 after the failure of our jewellery company. But if that had not happened then other good things would not have happened, either.
Charlotte Church
Welsh singer-songwriter and actress
The outcome of the Leveson inquiry.
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Selling fire alarms at 18 or 19.
Scuba diving in Costa Rica. My stunt double and I were trying out some equipment that let us talk to each other and I ran out of air at 80ft - probably because I talked too much. I had to use his air. Then we were surrounded by sharks. It was scary.
Terror of the next day.
"You can't see your children for two weeks." (When I was going through my divorce.)
When I was doing Knight Rider.
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