New Adventures

Saturday 25 July 2009

1.When were you happiest?

CAN’T QUANTIFY. I AM OFTEN HAPPY

 

2. What is your greatest fear?

 HOSPITALS

 

3. What is your earliest memory?

WINSTON CHURCHILLS FUNERAL ON TV – 1965 – I WAS 5

 

4.  Which living person do you most admire and why?

STEPHEN FRY – LIKE NOEL COWARD, HE IS BRILLIANT AT EVERYTHING HE DOES, BUT HIS GREATEST TALENT IS BEING STEPHEN FRY. I ADMIRE HIS HONESTY AND HIS CHAMPIONING OF MISUNDERSTOOD CAUSES.

 

5 What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

I WISH I WAS MORE ADVENTUROUS

 

6.What is the trait you most deplore in others?

ARROGANCE, PUSHINESS,

 

7. What was your most embarrassing moment?

DRYING ON-STAGE DURING A SPEECH AT AN AWARD CEREMONY

 

8.  Aside from a property, what’s the most expensive thing you’ve ever bought?

A WATER COLOUR PAINTING BY DUNCAN GRANT, OF THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP. I HAD JUST PLAYED A CHARACTER BASED ON HIM IN A DANCE SHOW AND I WANTED A PERMANENT MOMENTO

 

9. What is your most treasured possession?

A PERSONAL LETTER FROM CHARLIE CHAPLIN, WHO REPLIED TO A LETTER I HAD WRITTEN TO HIM WHEN I WAS 15.

 

10. Where would you like to live?

I AM LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE BEEN BORN IN LONDON AND THAT’S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME.

 

11. What would your super power be?

INVISIBILITY… I AM VERY NOSEY

 

12. What makes you unhappy?

 PEOPLE WHO SPRAY GRAFFITTI ON MY HOUSE

 

13. What do you most dislike about your appearance?

GENERALLY BLAND FEATURES, AND A “FRAME” THAT WAS DESCRIBED BY A JOURNALIST AS “BOXY”!

 

14. If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would you choose?

 DODO

 

15. Who would play you in the film of your life?

NICHOLAS HOULT, JUDE LAW AND CHRISTOPHER WALKEN (AT DIFFERENT AGES, OF COURSE) NONE OF THEM LOOK LIKE ME (UNFORTUNATELY) BUT THEY ARE ALL SLIGHTLY ECCENTRIC AND VERY INTERESTING ACTORS. I’D WANT IT TO BE A GOOD MOVIE!

 

16. What is your most unappealing habit?

NAIL BITING

 

17. What is your favourite smell?

SEAWEED

 

18. What is your favourite word?

JOY

 

19. What is your favourite book?

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY BY OSCAR WILDE

 

20. What would you most like to wear to a costume party?

I HATE COSTUME PARTIES! BUT I DID ONCE GO TO ONE AS BLAKE CARRINGTON FROM DYNASTY WITH MY PARTNER, ARTHUR, AS ALEXIS CARRINGTON

 

21. What is the worst thing anyone’s ever said to you?

HAVE YOU READ SOME OF MY REVIEWS?

 

22. Cat or dog?

LOVE ALL ANIMALS, BUT IF PUSHED, DOG

 

23.  Is it better to give or to receive?

YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO SAY GIVE, BUT I ENJOY BOTH

 

24. What is your guiltiest pleasure?

WATCHING STRICTLY COME DANCING WHILST EATING SPOTTED DICK AND CUSTARD

 

25. What do you owe your parents?

MY POSITIVE OUTLOOK AND MY LOVE OF MUSICALS, FILM AND THEATRE

 

26. To whom would you most like to say sorry and why?

I’D LIKE TO SAY SORRY TO ALL THE BRILLIANT DANCERS THAT I AUDITION THAT I DON’T HAVE ENOUGH JOBS FOR!

 

28. What does love feel like?

NO COMMENT

 

29. What was the best kiss of your life?

ANY FIRST KISS WITH ANYONE

 

30. Have you ever said “I love you” without meaning it?

YES, HASN’T EVERYONE?

 

31. Which living person do you most despise and why?

STRONG WORD… I DON’T DESPISE ANYONE

 

32. Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?

NOEL COWARD, KENNETH WILLIAMS, EDITH EVANS, JOHN GIELGUD, LAUREN BACALL, GORE VIDAL AND JOE ORTON. I WOULD JUST SIT BACK AND LISTEN!

 

33. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

LETS WAIT AND SEE

 

34. What is the worst job you’ve ever done?

FOLDING JUMPERS IN THE MENS DEPARTMENT DURING THE HARRODS SALE

 

35. What has been your biggest disappointment?

A SON OR DAUGHTER MIGHT HAVE BEEN NICE, BUT MAYBE MISSING OUT THE PART WHEN THEY CAN’T SPEAK.

 

36. If you could edit your past, what would you change?

NOTHING, APART FROM THE PEOPLE I HAVE LOST

 

 

37. If you could go back in time, where would you go?

I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE DIRECTED MUSICALS AT MGM IN HOLLYWOOD IN THE 1940’S AND 50’S

 

38. When did you last cry, and why?

WATCHING “BROTHERS AND SISTERS” ON DVD LAST NIGHT

 

39. How do you relax?

I PLAY WITH MY TWO CHIHUAHUA’S GRACE AND MISTER EDDIE 

 

40. How often do you have sex?

HOW VERY DARE YOU

 

41. What is the closest you’ve ever come to death?

NOT EVEN COME CLOSE!

 

42. What single thing would improve the quality of your life?

THE TIME TO READ MORE

BEING ABLE TO PLAY THE PIANO

 

43. What do you consider your greatest achievement?

TO HAVE MADE DANCE PALATABLE TO A LARGE AUDIENCE WHO MAY NOT HAVE BEEN INTERESTED BEFORE

 

44. What keeps you awake at night?

A DIFFICULT DECISION

 

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