I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby.
I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
I used to collect comic books. I had a substantial collection. I collect records also, but those have gone the way of the world.
I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.
I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.
The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things, and then they'd get sick, and people die, and then they have their basements full of stuff that goes from one box to the next, so I try not to get sentimental with stuff. I just try to collect memories; I guess that would be it.
Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.
I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.