I cry all the time. It’s embarrassing. I mostly cry when my children perform something at school. My wife regularly says, “Do you see any other fathers weeping?” But I can’t stop myself.
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Reading aloud the last two pages of a book about Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell. It was about his relationship with his cat, and a letter to a friend whose dog had died. It’s about letting the unexpected happen to you, and how that can really be what life is about.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2017 source ↗
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Andy Serkis
English actor
23 June last year. The fact that certain people have chosen for us to come out of Europe is one of the saddest, divisive and unthought-through events in my lifetime.
Bryan Cranston
American actor
When I think of my mother. After my father left, she became an alcoholic and wallowed in resentment.
Dan Stevens
English actor
At the end of Professor Marston & The Wonder Women.
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I was very proud of doing Falstaff, because it seemed to go well.
Picking tiny bits of glass out of long grass for Haringey council, 45 years ago.
When I was a child, it was a bus driver or engine driver; then, when I was a teenager, I went to the theatre and wanted to be an actor.
Not being active in my own desires.
Just remembered, really.
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