Patricia Hodge
English actress
I wish I could say sorry to my husband, because I couldn’t save him from his dementia.
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What is your greatest fear?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
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What is the worst job you have done?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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My first wife, because I left her.
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View all 209 →My father because I was 12 when he passed and I blamed him for everything in my parents’ marriage. Now I realise he did the best he could and was just figuring life out like everybody else.
Whoever has to use the bathroom after my brother.
Alice Eve
British actress
To all my teachers – I’m sorry I thought class was a paying audience.
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View profile →Every actor has the same fear – ie, you’re never going to work again.
As a perfectly decent bloke.
I was about six years old in a market square in Italy and my dad said, “Oh, those shorts would look perfect on you.” So he whipped my trousers off and I hadn’t got any knickers on.
Mucking out pigs on a farm when I was 15.
Nothing at all.
When they don’t tell the truth.
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