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I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.
I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special.
I love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that.
I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.
I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role.
I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.
I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning.
I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.
I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.
My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.
The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.
The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.
A good teacher is a determined person.
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
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