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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 April 2017 source ↗
1 March 1991, when I got back on the stage almost a year after a road accident in our tour bus. I felt like I had climbed Mount Everest. That was euphoric.
When I am in Italy with the family, not thinking about work.
In the car with my kids, singing Purple Rain.
When I found out that I was having my baby. They told me I was having a little girl and I named it Elizabeth. Then, when the baby was born it was my beautiful boy, Mark.
To be able to play the piano like Artur Schnabel.
I feel lucky to have been in this business for as long as I have. When I think of the intake that I was with at Rada, only one other person is still an actor, an old fellow called Bill Gaunt.
The years between 13 and 17, which I think are very formative, and the rather arid public school upbringing I had at Harrow.
I cry all the time. I like crying: it means that you’re more truly aware of a circumstance or a person or an event.
If you have a nice drink before going to bed, you don’t stay awake at night. I like almost anything in a bottle.
Probably a suit. If you buy a good suit, it lasts beyond your lifetime.
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