The question
What worries you about getting older?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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Becoming doubly incontinent.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗
It’s often the same with any new, revolutionary thing. People get stuck as they get older. Our minds are sort of electrochemical computers. Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.
Nothing. I’m curious how things will evolve.
Not being there for my daughter.
Certainly not. As a young child, I remember just dreaming about the Nobel Prize, but that was just a dream. It’s not something I would have ever thought was possible for me.
Glenda Jackson said I was an amateur during rehearsal for The White Devil at the Old Vic. I called her a cow, but that was inadequate.
To my mother for disappointing her. Mummy wanted me to be a different sort of person from who I am, but one can’t change oneself.
I wanted to be a doctor, like my father.
Every time I got a lucrative voiceover, I bought a picture. The most expensive was by James Gillray.
Never to have played at the National or the RSC.
On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life.
Gregory Porter, Tom Burke, Michelle Collins, Dawn O’Porter, Philippa Dunne, Maurice Sendak
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