The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I would try and get to being comfortable with myself quicker.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 September 2025 source ↗
I wouldn’t bother learning how to use logarithms, and I might give netball a miss.
I would build relationships. I would remember people’s significant moments. I would not fear closeness.
I’d have made more of my education.
I’d drink less alcohol in the 90s.
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 spent about five years living in Paris thinking I would become Kristin Scott Thomas, and it didn’t happen.
I think we go back into the earth.
My failed driving test a few months ago. I got three majors and by the end of it the examiner couldn’t wait to get out of the car.
A receding hairline.
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.
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