It has been in myself, for allowing individuals who I relied on to make important decisions in my life that left me alone to pick up the pieces.
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Getting ill. I am in remission [from rheumatoid arthritis], but there is no cure.
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Peter Capaldi
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I am always disappointed when I see myself on the screen.
Sandy Powell
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Not meeting David Bowie, but then they say it’s best not to meet your heroes.
For my dad not to have known our boys.
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View profile →One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.
When the acting is going really well – when I am flying.
Anger at people's agenda to control others.
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