Guy Pearce: What keeps you awake at night?

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Recorded Guy Pearce said elsewhere, not written here

If I’ve spent money that I shouldn’t have or treated someone badly.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗

Others on this question

My very long to-do list.

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

Chiwetel Ejiofor English actor

The different areas of global catastrophe.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2024 source ↗

The morality of stealing that red liquorice.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 May 2025 source ↗

Björn Ulvaeus Swedish musician

Nothing, really. But without little sleeping pills, I’d go crazy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2020 source ↗

I felt like I messed up my marriage. I don’t feel that way any more, but at the time I was devastated.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗

A guitar – a 1959 Gibson 335.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗

My fear of confrontation.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗

I wish I could go back and not be the anxious child that I was. I spent the first 25 years of my life just trying to survive human interaction.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗

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