Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗
Not being at peace with myself, in spite of an ongoing lifetime effort to try to calm down and accept that, no matter what, I did the best I could.
Boothby Graffoe calling up to pester me into promoting his new album, available on Amazon and iTunes.
Snoring – and it's not me.
Everything: I worry about whether the window frames need replacing, did I answer that email, how long my face is going to hold up, world peace, poverty…
Judgmental without investigation.
It's bad taste to brag about money.
That I live a life with no contact with arseholes.
'Do you have a hobby?' It was a journalist. I went into a tirade: 'How dare you presume I'm a dabbler!'
An unreadable wig.
To my teachers in high school - that I didn't punch them in the mouth for discouraging all my interests.
Simon Callow, Oti Mabuse, Robert Bathurst, Sam Neill, Olivia Colman, Charles Dance
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