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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2019 source ↗
Everyone comes to me for advice, and I wish they didn’t. I negotiate fees for other artists, give advice on property, on food, on clothes, on pensions. I can be standing on a corner in another country and someone will approach me for help.
An unreadable wig.
I have a nice life but if everybody else had a better quality of life, too, Britain would be a nicer place.
My mum looks after our kids all the time, but on the very few weeks she takes time off, doing it all is a big juggle. My mum is a combination of Mary Poppins and Angela Davis, so I’d clone her.
Working on my memoir because some memories were painful to revisit.
In London. When Blake [Edwards, her husband since 1969] made me laugh so much I wept. Blake says I slept with a smile.
I think I over-apologise as it is.
As you go through life, you discover so many forms of love – passionate, compassionate, familial, friendship. Love is hard to describe but it’s wonderful.
I saw a very expensive painting by a wonderful American painter called Charles Burchfield. I really loved it – it hit me in the solar plexus – and I thought if I did three extra concerts on tour, I might be able to afford it. And I did.
Something triumphant, I couldn’t tell you what but something vibrant and joyous.
John Malkovich, Eddie Izzard, Paul Giamatti, Ralph Ineson, Bryan Cranston, Andy Serkis
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