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To my parents for all the mess-ups. There have been times when I’ve been going through something and I’ve thought, God, I’m so glad my mum and dad are dead, because they don’t have to go through it with me.
Martin Scorsese. I was, let’s say, slightly tactile with him during a Q&A; I was more nervous than I’ve been about anything. I kept tapping his knee, it might even have been bruised by the end.
To my daughter, because she felt that I spent too much time saving other children. I would go to war zones and travel the world for human rights work, and she was missing me.
He knows who he is. I’ve apologised. I wish it made more difference.
A vet, but then I discovered you needed qualifications.
Rolf Harris – he let us all down.
In the school holidays, I worked at a soft drinks factory in Southport.
In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
A black Mercedes 500 coupé in the mid-1980s. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d seen. (I had been clubbing the night before.) And I can’t drive.
Still being here, aged 60. If I thought I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
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