The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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Right now. I think I was born in my early 30s and I am finally catching up to my age. It’s fine to be a bit like Frasier now, but it’s probably not ideal when you are 12.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 February 2019 source ↗
The last time I held my children and every time before that. They’ve been my salvation.
My first payday as a professional actor, knowing this was the beginning of the rest of my life, and the day my daughter told me I wasn’t the worst dad in the world.
I won a local art competition aged 10 – the first time I’d won anything.
Now, in this moment, in this city.
Anything from the concept of human mortality to a faux pas I made at a party in 2005.
Worryingly close to absolute panic.
Most of the people that saw me do comedy between the years 2007 and 2012.
In the last couple of years, Britain.
Describing the plot of Roma.
As the man who never died.
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