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Sometimes the overwhelming realisation that I will one day die; but mostly that ShortList man from the tube throwing stones at my window.
All kinds of ridiculous things, like worrying about the lobsters I see in restaurant tanks in Chinatown.
Auditions the next day.
If you have a nice drink before going to bed, you don’t stay awake at night. I like almost anything in a bottle.
Last Monday was a really emotional day for me: my last son graduated from high school and he’s going on a mission for the Mormon Church soon. I’ve already experienced it four times with my other sons: my oldest went to London, my second son to Italy, my third to Scotland and my fourth the Netherlands. They come back, but the little boy stays out there. He never comes back.
In 1971, I was sitting in a hotel room in London and there was a television chat show going on, debating whether Donny Osmond should be deported because of the chaos he was wreaking. And while I was watching this, there were fans on the street below, chanting my name. I was 13 and thought, “Does it get any better than this?”
Eight grandchildren, five sons and my one wife.
Not Puppy Love.
Jenny Agutter, Madhur Jaffrey, Jenna Coleman, John Waters, Martin Freeman, Harriet Walter
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