What did you want to be when you were growing up?

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Recorded Liev Schreiber said elsewhere, not written here
An elevator operator.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 September 2024 source ↗

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Angela Hartnett English chef
Anything and everything. I watched the Olympics and wanted to be an 800m runner. If I watched Inspector Morse, I wanted to be a pathologist.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 August 2022 source ↗
Patricia Hodge English actress
A ballet dancer, but it changed to being an actress when I got put in a school play.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 September 2018 source ↗

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When I was 19 I worked at a gay bar while I was at drama school in London. One of the guys I worked with was Glaswegian and I learned the dialect from him. The acting teacher at the school said, “Liev, you’ve got the region but you’ve missed the character entirely” because I played Jimmy Boyle in a very camp Glaswegian accent.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 September 2024 source ↗

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