Samuel West
British actor, theatre director, and narrator
Decent arts funding.
What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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An improvement in the weather in this country.
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A shiatsu masseuse on 24-hour retainer.
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To be able to cycle from my home in Chiswick [west London] to the centre of London on a fully segregated lane.
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Less pizza – living on tour is not conducive to eating healthily.
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That I go to the gym a couple of times a week, yet I am unfit and overweight.
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Someone once said online that they hated me so much they wanted to stab me with a spoon. A knife’s easy, but a spoon – that takes real hatred.
That there are more important things than being right.
Wasting my life.
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