I hate tight, tight stuff showing every line. I want to be sick when people are in Lycra.

My grammar school caught on to the fact that the reason I was falling asleep in class was that I was doing working men's clubs till 10 or 11 at nights. My mother was told I shouldn't do it anymore. Of course, I was bringing in money to the family, so nobody liked hearing that.

There seem to be two sorts of actors. Some people play themselves marvellously, and others, like me, rather like to become someone else.

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