Cyndi Lauper: What most recently moved you to tears?

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At a function for the True Colors Fund, where formerly homeless gay and transgender kids were telling their stories. It was heartbreaking.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2014 source ↗

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Ralph Steadman Welsh illustrator and cartoonist

About five minutes ago; I cry easily.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2015 source ↗

Stuart Broad English former cricketer and commentator

I am not a crier.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 February 2013 source ↗

Vick Hope British television and radio presenter

This sounds so silly, but I cry with happiness all the time. I cry when my flowers open!

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 August 2022 source ↗

Joanna Scanlan British actress and writer

The plastics episode of Blue Planet.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 March 2018 source ↗

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Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

I cut people off a lot when I talk. It’s a terrible habit.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗

Question What do you fear most? Identity & self

A world where greed rules.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗

Question What thought won't let you sleep? Daily life

My son. He is a teenager.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2014 source ↗

Question What does happiness look like for you when life is going well? Identity & self

Long walks with my husband. Being with my family. Making music, and writing when songs just fall together. And maybe a cannoli. Just one.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 April 2020 source ↗

Question If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be? Identity & self

I’ve constantly been changing myself my whole life. I am what you would call “a piece of work” in progress.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 April 2020 source ↗

Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

Aside from my mom, my husband, and my mother-in-law, Gloria Steinem, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and RBG.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗

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