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Wanting to be better: a better actor, a better father.
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Unfinished work and caffeine.
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It used to be worrying about football results.
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Insomnia. I go to bed at 9.30pm and listen to Radio 4.
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Anything and everything.
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My collection of paintings. I have some by William Burroughs.
An incredibly long one – maybe the entire St Matthew Passion – just so everybody would have to sit in the church for hours.
Relapsing. I usually spend eight, nine, 10 months sober, then I’ll spend a day relapsing and I get disappointed. But it never lasts too long. I get back up and try again.
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