The question
What lesson has mattered most in your life?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
You are your own greatest asset.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 June 2026 source ↗
The number one rule I give them is just not give them the golden rule. Do unto others, I'm not a religious guy, but, I mean, nobody said it any better in a couple thousand years than that, which may be why it's lasted to a certain degree too. I mean, more people are reading a 2000-year-old book about how to behave than anything that anybody's coming up with lately. Now it's got a lot of, particularly the Old Testament, it's got different kinds of stories, to some extent, but if the whole world lived by the golden rule, it would be such a more wonderful society.
To know thyself, as Shakespeare said.
Be kind and do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Want for your brothers and sisters what you want for yourself.
Funny Irish woman.
I started my career not getting jobs, but then you learn that 95% of this job is not getting jobs, and you just have to make peace with it.
Becoming invisible.
Any time I’m in rehearsals.
Someone once saw me in a play and said that I was disgusting.
An actor. I watched a lot of TV because we lived in the countryside and the weather was so bad.
Peter Sarsgaard, Hamza Yassin, Sarah Hadland, Meghann Fahy, Marcus Mumford, Tuppence Middleton
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