The question
As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Before I knew what being an actor was, I wanted to be one.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 November 2018 source ↗
A mechanic when I was a little kid, and then, when I came to the UK, I wanted to play professional football.
A professional footballer.
My brother Joe, he’s nine years older than me.
I always wanted to be a rapper.
I can’t stand the way my voice will crack if I’m making a speech. I hate public speaking and the emotion it dredges up.
Lying. Let’s not call it “untruthful.” Or “factually inaccurate.” I don’t even call it bullshit, because I like bulls. And bulls need to shit. So you can’t hold that against them. Let’s call it what it is: lying.
They want nothing but friendship.
My wife – for her intelligence, talent, ability to survive this business and be such a fantastic mother to our two kids. (Of course, I have to say that, because she’s sitting right here.)
Food in a sink drain.
As someone who did what he could with what he had.
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