The question
What lesson has mattered most in your life?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
You can only do one thing at a time.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 September 2025 source ↗
The world doesn’t consist of bad and good people; it consists of people seeing things in a different way.
Trust my instincts.
Life’s too short to take offence.
That everything happens for a reason.
Last year, during four days in January, when I directed Rhoda, my second short film, in a tiny house in Camberwell with Juliet Stevenson and Emma D’Arcy.
My partner was doing a play in Hong Kong last year and I went to visit him, and I bought him a beautiful teacup. But I didn’t look at the price tag before I took it to the till and it was £100, the most expensive teacup imaginable.
I woke up this morning thinking maybe I don’t want to be an actor any more, then I had breakfast and I thought: actually, no, I really like being an actor.
Mistaking shyness for not having anything to say.
I think we go back into the earth.
I spent about five years living in Paris thinking I would become Kristin Scott Thomas, and it didn’t happen.
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