Bill Bailey
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Telesales. I refused to wear a tie, but my argument that “They can’t see what we’re wearing” didn’t wash with the manager and I lasted a week.
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Scraping plates in a fish and chip cafe in Whitby.
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Working in a chip shop when I was 16. I gave my friends massive portions, but the smell was gross.
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I’ve always enjoyed all my jobs, whether it was cleaning the stairs for my piano teacher or working at Lister hospital one summer.
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An actor – that’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. I went to stage school when I was 13.
I was in a car crash when I was 16, and I have a little scar on my face from smashing the passenger window with my head. If the car had rolled, I would have been dead.
Being a decent person.
Kind, fun and that I cared.
I’d change my mindset and not be so hard on myself, and impart the knowledge that other people’s intentions aren’t always as well-meaning as my own.
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