The question
What most recently moved you to tears?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
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Reading aloud the last two pages of a book about Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell. It was about his relationship with his cat, and a letter to a friend whose dog had died. It’s about letting the unexpected happen to you, and how that can really be what life is about.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2017 source ↗
Three days ago. I don’t even know why. Sometimes I just feel emotional about how vulnerable humans are.
I cry all the time. It’s embarrassing. I mostly cry when my children perform something at school. My wife regularly says, “Do you see any other fathers weeping?” But I can’t stop myself.
Singing Abide With Me at the funeral of Bruce Reynolds [ringleader of the Great Train Robbery], March 2013.
Just a few days ago. I was overtired.
Picking tiny bits of glass out of long grass for Haringey council, 45 years ago.
Just remembered, really.
The third or fourth glass of wine.
I was very proud of doing Falstaff, because it seemed to go well.
Not being active in my own desires.
When I was a child, it was a bus driver or engine driver; then, when I was a teenager, I went to the theatre and wanted to be an actor.
Geoffrey Rush, Julie Delpy, Charlotte Rampling, Cybill Shepherd, Orlando Bloom, Emilia Fox
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