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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2023 source ↗
I only ever wanted to be an actor or a rock star. I was suspended from school in the sixth form and allowed back only when I promised to join the army. But I lied.
A ballet dancer.
Exactly what I am now.
Composer, pirate, scientist, philosopher.
I wouldn’t change anything. Life is what it is, you just have to get on with it.
“You’re a reasonably intelligent girl,” by a teacher, and it drove me crazy and made me want to get into Oxford.
Kind, funny, alive.
Peaceful and joyful.
Things, situations, people evolve constantly. Nothing is static.
Nearly crashing into a train on one film, almost falling out of a hot-air balloon on another, narrowly avoiding getting knocked over by a taxi …
Paul O'Grady, Shirley Ballas, Joss Stone, Rose McGowan, Julia Ormond, Melissa McCarthy
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