Ray Winstone
English actor
I cry when I'm happy, I cry when I'm sad. I cried the other night watching some family getting back together on some documentary.
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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Working on my memoir because some memories were painful to revisit.
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Lorraine Pascale
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When I spilled hot fat on my hand a couple of weeks ago.
Engelbert Humperdinck
British singer
I have to say I am an easy sob. I don’t mind, because there’s no harm in having a big man cry.
At the election of Joe Biden, thinking we were out of the woods. Wrong.
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A cure for arthritis.
Losing my singing voice. I had to have an operation and unfortunately it was not successful. I’ve not been able to sing since.
In London. When Blake [Edwards, her husband since 1969] made me laugh so much I wept. Blake says I slept with a smile.
As you go through life, you discover so many forms of love – passionate, compassionate, familial, friendship. Love is hard to describe but it’s wonderful.
I saw a very expensive painting by a wonderful American painter called Charles Burchfield. I really loved it – it hit me in the solar plexus – and I thought if I did three extra concerts on tour, I might be able to afford it. And I did.
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