Chris O'Dowd
Irish actor and comedian
At college: missing lectures to rehearse plays and go daytime drinking. Oh, and the baby’s birth.
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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.
Now. My life is better with every year of living it.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2012 source ↗
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When our family was complete.
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Now is pretty damned good.
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Loud bar, good band, cold beer, ride home.
Discretion and good cheer.
I would be a better correspondent. I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
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