The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A successful marriage, my third.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2025 source ↗
A selection of single paragraphs that perfectly capture something I’ve thought or felt, even if it’s shameful or perverse.
Doing the spacewalk to fix a solar panel at the furthest edge of the ISS. You have no idea if you are going to get a chance to do a spacewalk when you go into space. I was fortunate. There’s a real juxtaposition between floating, completely serene and calm, looking down at Earth and the universe, and being aware that you are in this hostile environment.
Becoming an actor at all, considering my background.
My kids, and getting some of the stories I had in my head on to paper in a way that wasn’t too far removed from the thing I dreamed about writing.
Unemployment – I’m an actor.
I remember really wanting to go into space. I liked the idea of flying.
I worked on a kibbutz in Israel and had to clean out the chicken run. It was like an oven. Inside were rows and rows of chickens that had been shitting for months – the whole floor was six inches deep in chicken shit.
I’d like my parents to be alive – I miss them.
On the interstate. Anyone who has driven in the United States will know that you are always very close to death – it is like the wild west on the freeways.
I’m happy whenever I’m with my wife, Allegra.
Michael Flatley, Andy Serkis, Martin Sheen, Reece Shearsmith, Fatima Bhutto, Eddie Izzard
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