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Never learning to play the piano.
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What has been your biggest disappointment?Originally asked
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Tom Ellis
Welsh actor
Every job I don’t get.
Patrick Stewart
Actor
Gregory Peck not mentioning me when he won best supporting actor at the Golden Globes for Father Mapple in Moby-Dick. I played Ahab.
Christopher Eccleston
English actor
Falling off the stage in the third preview of Macbeth at the RSC.
Cybill Shepherd
American actress and former model
Not doing more movies.
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