In his own words, Clive Anderson, who found fame with Whose Line Is It Anyway and had a successful talk show, tells all about the most important lessons he's learnt in life. Some people are confident of their abilities – but I’m not. I am a nervous, agitated performer, and natural pessimist.
I assume I’ll be a disaster. The good thing about being a pessimist is when the worst doesn’t happen, you’re pleasantly surprised.
I don’t know how optimists keep going. I got my career the wrong way round. I don’t regret leaving law to go into TV, even when I see a peer has been made a High Court judge.
But TV is for young people, whereas as a lawyer, it’s good to be older with gravitas. I looked very young when I was a barrister, the most ageing thing
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