Eddie Marsan
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I wouldn't have been a bully and I'd have stood up to more bullies.
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Nothing at all.
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Jennifer Hudson
American singer and actress
I wouldn’t change a thing. Every experience is a lesson learned.
Sheena Easton
Scottish singer
I read too much science fiction to mess with anything. I’d be terrified that, by changing something, my kids wouldn’t be mine.
Sofie Gråbøl
Danish actress
I'd have a good, encouraging start in school – I think I'd be a different person, with fewer anxiety attacks.
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View profile →I cry all the time in front of the telly. I was doing Gogglebox with Julian Clary recently and I cried watching The Piano.
Mucking out pigs on a farm when I was 15.
As a perfectly decent bloke.
When they don’t tell the truth.
Not playing James Bond.
I was about six years old in a market square in Italy and my dad said, “Oh, those shorts would look perfect on you.” So he whipped my trousers off and I hadn’t got any knickers on.
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