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"When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary."
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"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox, that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."

"I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up."

"There's something inherently majestic about Christmas that seems to have been abandoned by us; something flippantly cast aside, something that was foolishly abandoned and was tragically forgotten in the abandonment."

"I have the biggest sweet tooth. After the holidays, I gotta start working out."
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"If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again."

"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."

"I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived."

"Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House."

"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."

"I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed."

"My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say."

"I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers."
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