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Actors live in a constant state of disappointment. I’ll never be happy with what I’ve done.
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Realising that success wasn't going to keep me happy all my life.
My wife and I were meant to meet Frank Sinatra before he went on stage in Hamburg. But there was a taxi-drivers’ strike and we were too late.
Not keeping off the last 5lbs.
The years I lost trying to fix my second marriage.
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I hope the happiest moment is still ahead of me.
Not being able to breathe – I get very panicky at the thought.
Eight or nine years ago, I disgraced myself in the Japanese ambassador’s home in Dublin, at a celebration for my late mother-in-law’s book about living in Japan. Afterwards, when I had to apologise, she told me it was the worst night of her life and, because I was drunk enough not to remember the details, it will never not be the most embarrassing night of my life. People are filling in details even now – “Remember when you fell under the table during the first course?”
Never be rigid in your thinking, be open.
A hairdresser – I still want to be a hairdresser.
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