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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2023 source ↗
I think the only life experience that I have to offer out of this is something we all know in the abstract but don't experience in practice very much. That is that you can survive an awful lot of bad stuff, so long as your mind is intact. I'm afraid that's the only life experience I have to offer.
To be humble is to be sane.
The more you face shame and stare it in the eyes and talk about it, the less potent it is.
That life is tough and unfair; that life is beautiful.
The amazing women standing up against the Taliban.
The early family skiing holidays – before I’d broken an ankle and Gerald had torn a ligament – were just wonderful.
When I was a teenager, I laughed at a joke I didn’t understand. Whoever told the joke turned to me and said, “What are you laughing at?” Of course I didn’t know and he obviously knew I didn’t know. It was excruciating.
Minding not being liked.
I’ve always been frightened of the dark. I sometimes wonder whether it stems from being away filming from the age of five. I can remember being devastatingly homesick and having a little nightlight I used to look at to reassure myself things were all right.
If my children remember me as fondly as I remember my mum, that would be a treat.
Michael Flatley, Joseph Fiennes, John Waters, Eleanor Tomlinson, Jack Whitehall, Ed Harris
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