What would you like to be remembered for?

I think the work speaks for itself. I don't think that people have special responsibilities just because they've done something that other people like or don't like. I think the work speaks for itself. I think people could choose to do things if they want to but we're all going to be dead soon, that's my point of view. Somebody once told me, they said "Live each day as if it would be your last and one day you'll certainly be right." I do that. You never know when you're going to go but you are going to go pretty soon. If you're going to leave anything behind its going to be your kids, a few friends and your work. So that's what I tend to worry about.

I am flattered and embarassed by all the recent attention to my "Last Lecture." I am told that, including abridged versions, over six million people have viewed the lecture online. The lecture really was for my kids, but if others are finding value in it, that is wonderful. But rest assured; I'm hardly unique. Send your kids to Carnegie Mellon and the other professors here will teach them valuable life lessons long after I'm gone.

As an honest man.

As a well-balanced and functioning thin man.

As a mayor who made London better for all Londoners, and as a good husband and dad.

As someone who didn’t waste a minute.

As an actor who happens to be short.

As a complex and brilliant man.

As someone who made a difference.

For making people’s journeys on the M6 a bit easier.

Not that much of a twat.

As a half-decent actor.

Simply as a man who put a smile on the face of everyone he met.

I would just like to be remembered.

As the woman who never died.

As an everyman who could act a bit.

My vain side would like to be remembered as someone who did good for others in some way. But I would be happy if my children remembered me.

As a nice person who always put others before myself. I’d also like my own posthumous tartan.

As a good person who was kind, funny, and a little bit naughty.

As the billionaire philanthropist Anita Rani, who helped bring education to huge numbers of young women around the world.