Rupert Graves: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

If you could edit 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.

Recorded Rupert Graves said elsewhere, not written here

I’d edit out all my gauche incomprehension.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 January 2015 source ↗

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Tim Minchin Australian musician, writer, actor and comedian

I’d take back some dumb shit I said when I had no audience and found that being shocking made people laugh.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 July 2020 source ↗

Bobbi Brown

I would do more weightlifting than aerobics. Strong is better than skinny.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 October 2025 source ↗

Jonathan Rhys Meyers Irish actor

The public mistakes I’ve made. Most recently, I tried to light an e-cigarette on an aeroplane and was told to put it out. I completely forgot I was on a plane. I’d had, like, three drinks, but it only takes three. I stopped as soon as I got off and I got straight back into my programme, because that’s what I do.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 August 2018 source ↗

Harlan Coben American author