Rupert Graves
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I started playing football too old.
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I never set my sights that high, so I’m not disappointed with anything.
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There’s been the odd beauty on the dance floor I really ought to have gone home with.
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My singing career.
Not getting into drama school when I was 17. In those days, the first thing people said was, “Where did you train?”
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