Louis Walsh
Irish music manager and television personality
America – there are too many Americans.
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The world doesn’t reward talent, it mostly rewards those who are connected.
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Bill Bailey
Comedian and musician
Not being chosen as the next Bond.
Not playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. I am a huge Brando fan and a big Tennessee Williams fan and it’s a part I would love to have a go at. It’s possible I still could but I’m too old, really.
Andrea Riseborough
British actress
It used to be myself, but I am over that now.
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Everyone comes to me for advice, and I wish they didn’t. I negotiate fees for other artists, give advice on property, on food, on clothes, on pensions. I can be standing on a corner in another country and someone will approach me for help.
A man. I have always fought against being gender specific. I just don’t like being identified as female: I’m a person.
Staying sane in a career path that tries endlessly to unnerve you.
For winning that elusive Oscar.
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