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I was a dozy boy I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.

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Rupert Graves
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 30
Actor
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Film Director
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Stage Actor
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I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.
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I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.
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I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.
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