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"Michael Simkins has
a funny, engaging, perceptive and hugely entertaining gift of
conveying the oddness, hilarity and (sometimes) wonderful and
triumphant life that actors lead."
STEPHEN FRY
"Casts an objective eye on the crazy world of the actor with
an accuracy that is both chilling and charming." MIKE LEIGH
"I thought I'd just take a quick glance at it. Two hours
later I was still reading. Michael Simkins has come up with a
real page-turner and a genuinely funny and honest book about the
actor's life." MICHAEL BILLINGTON, THE GUARDIAN
"Daring, brutal, hilariously candid, Simkins unravels his
own profession to show the exhilaration, masochism and madness
underneath." JULIE MYERSON
"No need to tell anyone how well Michael Simkins writes about
acting, because the evidence is there every week in The Guardian."
MICHAEL FRAYN
"Michael Simkins writes about what it's really like to be
an actor, and nobody does it better. If you want glamour, self-congratulation,
fame and adulation, you're better off buying Hello! Michael writes
about disaster, humiliation, rejection and ridicule - the hilarious
truth." NICHOLAS HYTNER
"It is thrilling that Michael Simkins is having such success
as a writer - anything to keep him off the stage!" SIR IAN
MCKELLEN
"The tale of an unhealthy obsession which will strike fear
into the souls of all parents of stage-struck children."
JIM BROADBENT
"You read the wonderful Michael Simkins with a mixture of
horror and delight. Part of you hopes he caught the fag end of
a hilariously tatty theatre culture. But part of you fears that
his stories will hold good for as long as people go on taking
the undignified risk of dressing up and
pretending to be other people." DAVID HARE
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