Tim Robbins
American actor
When I was shooting The Player – I was in love with life and fulfilled by my creative experience.
When were you happiest?
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When the war was over—whichever war that was.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 1995 source ↗
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Dominic Cooper
English actor
I am pretty chirpy at the moment.
Richard Feynman
Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
It's made me a very happy man ever since.
Danny Cipriani
England rugby union player
When I am playing rugby.
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