The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Is that the final mix?
The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 May 2025 source ↗
Go back to where you came from.
On Angela's Ashes, Alan Parker said to me, 'You've got the Bafta, just get in the door.' I was walking along the street to go into a shop and he saw me milking it a bit. It was a really good piece of advice.
“Didn’t you used to be Graydon Carter?”
In school, I was 11, and we had to paint a picture of family life. My painting was held up to the class and I was told it looked like a spider with ink on its feet had walked across the page. It was done so viciously – humiliating.
The morality of stealing that red liquorice.
Signing away the rights to my life story to a major motion-picture company for a sum that I have since been told was way below the market rate.
People not remembering who I am.
That Sparks predates the Beatles and it’s kind of all too obvious where they got a lot of their inspiration.
You have to go to the end of the line.
One handsome dude.
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