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People Are Falling All Over Themselves To Send You Free Shoes And Free Cufflinks And Colonic Irrigations For Two. Nobody Ever Offers You A Free Acceptance Speech. There Just Seems To Be A Gap In The Market. I Would Love To Be Able To Pull Out A Speech By Dolce & Gabbana.

When School Friends Would Think About Appearing On Stage As The Most Frightening, The Most Awful, Intimidating Experience Ever, I Knew That It Was Something I Could Do.

It's A Terrible Thing, I Think, In Life To Wait Until You're Ready. I Have This Feeling Now That Actually No One Is Ever Ready To Do Anything. There Is Almost No Such Thing As Ready. There Is Only Now. And You May As Well Do It Now. Generally Speaking, Now Is As Good A Time As Any.

I Was Too Shy, I Think, To Sing Publicly. It Takes A Particular Kind Of Person. And When I Was Young, I Was Not That Person. In The First Instance, When A Record Company Said To Me, Do You Want To Try And Make Your Record, My First Reaction Was, No, I'm Not Worthy - I Couldn't Possibly, And So On And So Forth.

I Think Maybe Even One Of The Reasons I Became An Actor Was Actually To Hide. I Mean, It Sounds Paradoxical Because, Of Course, People Are Standing Up In A Public Place And Encouraging Other People To Look At Them. So That's Not The Conventional Definition Of Hiding.