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" There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth. "

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" You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off. "

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" Certainly, I seem to need to do a play a year. I feel wrong if I haven't got one planned. "

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" I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store. "

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" I sometimes think the theatre is more demanding because it requires things you don't have in films, like it requires you to make the people in the front row believe you and not look an idiot to them while the people right at the back can hear you. "

" My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day. "

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" I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff. Does that make sense? "

" There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth. "

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