Adrian Dunbar
Irish actor
Being a bit mean now and again, too impetuous, snappy, bit of a temper.
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Thinking that I’m right when I’m wrong. But not only that – being able to convince other people I’m right and then finding out I’m wrong.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2024 source ↗
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View all 243 →An “elastic” sense of time (fancy way of saying I am late a lot).
Being judgmental.
The way I allow myself to talk to myself.
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View profile →Losing my makeup bag.
I worked in a paper factory at five o’clock on a Saturday morning when I was in my early 20s. I’d go out raving the night before, get an hour’s sleep and then go to the factory. I was covered in paper cuts and used to think I heard people talking to me; they gave me a lot of breaks because they thought I was going mad.
Thinking I’ve upset somebody.
Lovely but useless.
I worked with Stephen Fry recently and we had a real heart-to-heart. I asked: “What was it like being in prison for being gay?” And thank God someone came in and he didn’t hear me say it. I was mixing him up with when he played Oscar Wilde. I could picture him in his cell.
Some man in the street stopped me and said: “If you were a few inches taller you’d be dangerous.” I’ve no idea what he meant.
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