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“Not interested.” Who? Many people.
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Bruce Dickinson
English heavy metal singer
“What makes you think you are so special?”
“Do you know what your problem is?” It was a dear friend of mine. They were referring to the fact that I’m impatient.
I was going to a bar with friends and there was a line at the door. I’d been there before and asked the doorman to skip the line. He said, “Oh, I remember you, you were in Almost Famous, weren’t you?” And I said, “Yeah.” And he goes, “Yeah, get back in line.”
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I thought I’d be smarter by now.
When I was 19 I worked at a gay bar while I was at drama school in London. One of the guys I worked with was Glaswegian and I learned the dialect from him. The acting teacher at the school said, “Liev, you’ve got the region but you’ve missed the character entirely” because I played Jimmy Boyle in a very camp Glaswegian accent.
Watching the Olympics.
Acting – it’s also the best, though.
An elevator operator.
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