Julia Stiles: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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Julia Stiles

American actress

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I’d have been less precocious as a child (you grow up fast in New York). I’d have prolonged the naivety.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2015 source ↗

Others on this question

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Paterson Joseph British actor and author

I wouldn’t live so long in France. After eight years, I came back to London.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 February 2020 source ↗

Emma Barnett British broadcaster and journalist

Not being able to have a baby for two and a half years. Lots of people say it made me a better person; I think it made me worse. You go to a very dark place with your friends because they are having kids, and you want to be happy for them but you’re not.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 February 2021 source ↗

Samuel West British actor, theatre director, and narrator