I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
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We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
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I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.
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I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.
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The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.
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I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.
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At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.
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A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away.
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My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.
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So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.
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