Michael Palin
English actor
Not being fluent in another language.
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Not playing Freddie Mercury.
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Not playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. I am a huge Brando fan and a big Tennessee Williams fan and it’s a part I would love to have a go at. It’s possible I still could but I’m too old, really.
Never to have played at the National or the RSC.
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A librarian. Or a racing driver for Ferrari F1.
To Ms Dooley, for failing my maths GCSE several times over.
Clive Stafford Smith, for his incredible work with the Reprieve charity.
I used to clean the ovens in a bakery. Brillo pad and poison.
My Austin Healey.
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