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Glenda Jackson said I was an amateur during rehearsal for The White Devil at the Old Vic. I called her a cow, but that was inadequate.
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I wanted to be a doctor, like my father.
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To my mother for disappointing her. Mummy wanted me to be a different sort of person from who I am, but one can’t change oneself.
Never to have played at the National or the RSC.
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