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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.
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Tina Brown
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The closure of Talk magazine.
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Realising I was never going to achieve the grades to become a vet.
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Relapsing. I usually spend eight, nine, 10 months sober, then I’ll spend a day relapsing and I get disappointed. But it never lasts too long. I get back up and try again.
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Being accepted for who you are but also being encouraged to continue to grow.
My brother Joe, he’s nine years older than me.
On one of my first jobs, Cold Mountain, I got a wasp in my ear in front of Jude Law. He couldn’t see the wasp so just saw me freak out.
On Monday in therapy.
To keep trying to listen to yourself.
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