Michael Douglas: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Michael Douglas said elsewhere, not written here

The 60s at the University of California at Santa Barbara weren’t bad.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2011 source ↗

Others on this question

Hayley Mills English actress

Now. This is the best time of my life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 March 2010 source ↗

Speech Debelle Musical artist

When my album was made in June.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 November 2009 source ↗

The birth of my children.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2022 source ↗

Nadiya Hussain British television chef, baker and author

My children’s births, and when I won the Bake Off.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 September 2016 source ↗

If I haven’t seen them in years and yet can pick up conversation like it was yesterday.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 March 2011 source ↗

Any cancer survivor.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2011 source ↗

Personal: health. Globally: nuclear weapons.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2011 source ↗

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