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"I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me."
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"It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper."

"Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the bill came due. It left her lucid mind to do dishes."

"Few artists can afford artistic temperament."

"I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman."

"One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end."

"It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it."
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"Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'"


"Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters."


"Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around."


"I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too."


"A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest."


"The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad."
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