The question
Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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English actor, comedian, broadcaster and singer
A Maserati.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 November 2010 source ↗
My children’s education.
My half-electric Volvo.
Gender-affirming surgery. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not widely available on the NHS and a lot of it you have to pay for yourself.
I collect old costumes: I have one of Johnny Cash’s, and Liberace’s shoes.
The TV producer Jimmy Mulville has been an incredible mentor.
Make friends and do all you can to keep them. And try to be useful.
Entirely comfortable and warm – the edge of it can be white heat, but the best kind is room temperature.
I have a horrible capacity to be unctuous to people I want to impress.
As a good father and a decent person who was good company – not a bore!
When I was little I wanted to be a conductor. I knew there was a man in a smart coat who waved his arms around at the opera and I thought: "There's the job for me."
Sofia Helin, Paul O'Grady, Daniel Mays, Adeel Akhtar, Andrea Riseborough, James Norton
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