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" I vaguely remember we had an air-raid shelter in our yard. We lived in a semi-detached house with a small garden in the suburbs of Salford, a couple of miles from the docks. "

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" I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes. "

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" The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two. "

" A boy is naturally full of humor. "

" I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick. "

" I was 24 when I was offered 'Doomwatch.' There was an option for a further series, and I turned it down. It is a wonderfully glorious thing to be unknowingly arrogant. "

" There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent. "

" There is no teaching to compare with example. "

" I was there at the birth of my son and had the extraordinary feeling when I first saw him of thinking this was the first person I would willingly die for. I had the same strong feelings when my daughter was born. "

" I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work. "

" With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. "

" The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it. "

" In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed. "

" When I die, I want to be the only person in the world not to have seen 'The Sound Of Music.' "

" I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father. "

" When you get back from a trip, make a note of what you didn't wear. This will avoid packing it unnecessarily next time. "

" Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult. "

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" I have always been attracted to difficult work. There really doesn't seem much point in looking for the easy life as an actor. I would simply get bored. "

" I have a number of places on my wish list, including Antarctica, the Norwegian fjords, and the Amazon. I have a passion for wilderness, and Siberia is on my list - however, that may be a bridge too far. "

" In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time. "