6/11/2023 0 Comments Parklife actorWhat have been your best and worst financial decisions? I took out the balance and decided not to do it again. I did a thing with Barclays where they did it for you and I had a portfolio. There have been a few hard times then things got better. I was a bit skint at the time and had to sell an amplifier and a couple of guitars for £800 to pay off something. In the mid-1980s I had to get a second mortgage on a house I had in north London. Have you ever had trouble paying your bills? I made a little money on Devon and got my money back for Spain. In the 1990s I had a cottage in Devon I paid £325,000 for, which I had as a holiday let and to live in, and a place in Spain. Over the years but not any more: I have just a flat now. I’m the sort of person who if I can pay off a mortgage I will, as soon as possible. I’ve never used credit cards because I don’t like owing money. Do you use cash, debit cards or credit cards? I used to look at menus and go for the cheaper things I don’t now. My parents were concerned this was something just for now that might go away. I worked at a butcher’s for a week and John Bell & Croyden, a posh chemist’s, for two weeks.īut work came in and I became an actor. There was an attempt to make me into a normal person. She was an agent as well: she became my agent and managed my career when I was young. Anna Scher had a class and she trained us in improvisation. I met Anna Scher, a drama teacher who did workshops after school, and directors came and I got professional work.Īll of a sudden I fell into a job and was making money without having to try too hard. I was at school and did quite a few TV things, like Four Idle Hands, a series about two guys who leave school and can’t find a job. I remember vividly: I got £16 for doing it and opened a post office account. I was 12 or 13 and was one of the gnomes. I often think it’s someone else’s or the taxman’s going to grab it. But when I’ve had money I’ve not quite believed it. I had two older sisters and we were pretty well looked after with holidays and stuff. We lived in the flats because it came with the job I think that helped. My mum cleaned and used to take the rents, so she had two jobs. My dad was a caretaker for the block of flats in King’s Cross we lived in. We never had much money, but we were always all right. ![]() How did your childhood influence your attitude to money? ![]() He lives in Little Venice, London, with dog, Chico. His TV credits include EastEnders and he performed the spoken verses of Blur’s 1994 single Parklife. The actor Phil Daniels, 63, found fame in 1979’s Quadrophenia, going on to star in films including Breaking Glass and The Hatton Garden Job.
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