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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2013 source ↗
In 1971, I was sitting in a hotel room in London and there was a television chat show going on, debating whether Donny Osmond should be deported because of the chaos he was wreaking. And while I was watching this, there were fans on the street below, chanting my name. I was 13 and thought, “Does it get any better than this?”
Right now. Ask me again when my children are grown, and I’ll sob, “When they loved me more than that woman/man they’ve shacked up with.”
In 1993, making love on the beach of a deserted island in the Bahamas.
Right up to this question.
Worry that I am not going to work.
Summer Breeze, by the Isley Brothers.
As a child, I thought, "Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries", and it turns out that's not true.
Adrian Dunbar, Cynthia Nixon, Samuel L Jackson, Nicholas Parsons, Alan Cumming, Steve Pemberton
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