My collection of paintings. I have some by William Burroughs.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 August 2018 source ↗
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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
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My collection of paintings. I have some by William Burroughs.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 August 2018 source ↗
A BMW 6 series convertible. It was smashing.
A black Mercedes 500 coupé in the mid-1980s. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d seen. (I had been clubbing the night before.) And I can’t drive.
A matt grey Range Rover. It’s been rebadged, so instead of Range Rover it says Range Rylan.
A Vivienne Westwood & Burberry two-piece suit I bought for a press night. At the time I was: “Yeah, of course I’m going to be a 30-inch waist for the rest of my life.” Now the trousers don’t fit.
I’ve been in six car accidents – none of them while I was driving.
Two days as a labourer in my 15th summer.
The public mistakes I’ve made. Most recently, I tried to light an e-cigarette on an aeroplane and was told to put it out. I completely forgot I was on a plane. I’d had, like, three drinks, but it only takes three. I stopped as soon as I got off and I got straight back into my programme, because that’s what I do.
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.
Wanting to be better: a better actor, a better father.
An incredibly long one – maybe the entire St Matthew Passion – just so everybody would have to sit in the church for hours.
Don Warrington, Martin Sheen, Ralph Ineson, Josette Simon, David Harewood, Mathew Horne
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