The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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Being able to paint the way I do.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2026 source ↗
Work-wise, joining the National Theatre when I was 21.
Still being an actor after 36 years.
Participating in a transformative movement that advocated human dignity and changed America forever.
To still be working.
In the 1950s I went to the Chelsea Arts Club’s New Year’s Eve ball at the Royal Albert Hall dressed as a Christmas pudding, with swimming trunks under my costume and holly in my hair.
I hope I’ll find my mother and father in heaven. Only my father would probably say, “You can’t come and live here, boy!”
As a nice old man.
Picking up RAF pilots’ parachute packs and gear they dropped off in a pile.
In 2001, when my eldest son died.
Keep working, improving your step.
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