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“You’ll never do well as an actor unless you change your name.” I’m not going to say who.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2024 source ↗
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What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
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View all 122 →“Sorry, I don’t mean to insult you, but did you know you look a bit like that actress Siobhán McSweeney?”
“We’d love you to be on the cover of our magazine and we’ll give you a makeover.”
I was called the N-word in Romford, by someone stepping off a train as I was getting on.
Adam Lambert
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“You’re never going to make it.” It was some guy I was dating. I had the last laugh.
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Still to come, I think.
As an optimist.
At King’s College hospital when I was 16; the job was putting hundreds of pieces of A4 paper into A4 transparent envelopes. I lasted one day.
Being torn to shreds by a very elderly woman for driving badly on the Isle of Man, maybe 15 years ago. She stopped in the middle of the road and really let me have it.
It’s actually people knowing how fearful I am.
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