Stanley Tucci: What disappointment has stayed with you longest?

The question

What disappointment has stayed with you longest?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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I am always disappointed in myself. I always feel that I haven’t achieved enough, or been as good a parent as I could be.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2016 source ↗

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Nish Kumar British stand-up comedian and presenter

In the last couple of years, Britain.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 February 2019 source ↗

Philip Glass American composer

I don't know. I was lucky; I was able to study with the people I wanted to, be friends with the people I wanted to and in the end I've been able to make a living the way I wanted to.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2008 source ↗

Meera Syal British writer and actress

Not being able to keep up piano lessons. I did a year and I was really good and loved it and then my parents couldn’t afford for me to continue.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 April 2018 source ↗

Irvine Welsh Scottish novelist

There’s been the odd beauty on the dance floor I really ought to have gone home with.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 December 2016 source ↗

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Cruelty. I don’t see the point.

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I cried recently, thinking about my late wife.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2016 source ↗

Question Who deserves an apology from you, and for what? Failure & regret

My late wife – she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn’t be in that room, because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn’t be able to take care of the kids after.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2016 source ↗