Kenneth Cranham quotes

Great wine is always enhanced by great food. (Kenneth Cranham)
The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of somebody skiing. View quote
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I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four. View quote
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I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put A Clockwork Orange my way, and Catcher in the Rye. View quote
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My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking. View quote
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Christopher Plummer once told me that he never orders a wine without first confirming that the restaurant has a second bottle in case he loves it. View quote
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You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time. View quote
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Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambling. The thrill is in placing the bet. Once the race is run or the match is played, you'll either win or lose. Until that happens, you're caught in this wonderful, agonising sense of expectation. View quote
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I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton and Harold Pinter. I've been in six different Pinter productions - I love the clarity of his language. He has this way of using words - there's a thrill to them. View quote
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