The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Hardworking, authentic and honest.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗
Warm, intelligent, accommodating.
Complicated, chaotic, messy.
Big, shy, angry.
Scruffy, infuriating and kind.
I got seduced by being a pop star, and why wouldn’t I? I think I could have made a few more career moves with films. But I was nervous. How do you move forward as an actor creatively if you are just appealing to teenage girls?
I don’t know and I don’t really care – I’ll be dead.
My own biography! Being serious, there’s an Australian novel by Gregory Roberts called Shantaram that I didn’t read through.
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
Looking down at other people. I was brought up to treat people as you treat yourself, with respect. The people you meet on the way up are the people you meet on the way down.
My relationship with drugs.
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