The question
What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This exact question recurs in The Guardian's institutional Q&A pool.
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Not playing James Bond.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2026 source ↗
Professionally, when I lost my first Wimbledon final. I am also disappointed I didn’t learn Spanish when I lived there.
Realising I was never going to achieve the grades to become a vet.
Super Mario Brothers.
I travelled all the way to the Arctic Circle to see the aurora borealis, then fell asleep and missed it.
As a perfectly decent bloke.
That’s the 64-million-dollar question.
I was about six years old in a market square in Italy and my dad said, “Oh, those shorts would look perfect on you.” So he whipped my trousers off and I hadn’t got any knickers on.
Every actor has the same fear – ie, you’re never going to work again.
When they don’t tell the truth.
My first wife, because I left her.
Walton Goggins, Stockard Channing, Juliet Stevenson, Gloria Steinem, Matthew Kelly, Tony Christie
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