The question
How would you want people to remember you?Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I couldn’t care less.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 April 2026 source ↗
As a good friend.
My sister-in-law and I are working towards the same goal, through different paths: the security of the human family.
As a nice guy, but I’m not sure that is going to happen.
By my friends as hopefully someone who was a good friend, or at least amusing, but I don’t need to be remembered by people I don’t know.
I called Elizabeth McGovern Elizabeth Montgomery throughout a show. But, bless her, she didn’t say anything.
When I was growing up, my mother would accuse me of showing off. That’s the most shaming, humbling, horrible thing. What was I doing? Showing off!
Our wedding weekend in Ireland.
Now that I’m at this end of my career, I’m gobsmacked that I’ve managed to cling on for as long as I have.
Impatience married with being very quick to judge.
Back in the day, when comedy was crueller, my monologues were full of terrible jokes about people, and you can’t apologise because then you’re asking people to forgive you. Your punishment is to walk around knowing you said these horrible things.
Vanessa Redgrave, Andrew O'Hagan, Gareth Bale, Bear Grylls, Simone Biles, Don Warrington
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