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'You're not free.'
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2007 source ↗
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What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
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I was opening in a play in my 20s, and my agent came on opening night, brought flowers, took me out to dinner and then told me she was no longer going to be representing me.
Charles Dance
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“You can’t play Maxim de Winter with ginger hair.”
Michael Ball
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“Unfortunately, Michael, I don’t think you’re ever going to work in the acting profession until you’re about 40, and then it’ll only be in minor character roles.” Drama teacher at Guildford School of Acting.
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The day our daughter was born, or maybe fishing on the Colorado river with my wife and brother and his buddy Earl.
Don't let MGM distribute a film you care about.
Other than being a decent father, Pollock.
Modelling tuxedos at the Oklahoma State Fair in 1971.
Greed and stupidity.
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