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" I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid. "
Colin Baker
Paid
Long
Doing
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" I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever. "
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" I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it. "
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" I hope I'm always convincing when I act! "
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" I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it. "
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" One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour. "
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" I take every job on its merits. "
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Every
Job
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Jungle
Somewhere
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Me
Bottom
" As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it. "
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" I like challenges that test your ingenuity. "
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Like
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