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I’d be born a man and have a wife to run the house.
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The public mistakes I’ve made. Most recently, I tried to light an e-cigarette on an aeroplane and was told to put it out. I completely forgot I was on a plane. I’d had, like, three drinks, but it only takes three. I stopped as soon as I got off and I got straight back into my programme, because that’s what I do.
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I wouldn’t lose my virginity at an army camp and then roll over on to an ants’ nest.
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Relapsing. I usually spend eight, nine, 10 months sober, then I’ll spend a day relapsing and I get disappointed. But it never lasts too long. I get back up and try again.
My collection of paintings. I have some by William Burroughs.
Wanting to be better: a better actor, a better father.
An incredibly long one – maybe the entire St Matthew Passion – just so everybody would have to sit in the church for hours.
I’ve been in six car accidents – none of them while I was driving.
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