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"It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do."
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"There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another."
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"He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age."
"Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters."
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