Julia Stiles: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Julia Stiles said elsewhere, not written here

I’d have been less precocious as a child (you grow up fast in New York). I’d have prolonged the naivety.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2015 source ↗

Others on this question

Jo Brand English entertainer

I’d have told a racist cabbie to go fuck himself, but I was scared about being chucked out on the street at 2am.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 September 2015 source ↗

Douglas Stuart Scottish fashion designer and novelist

My mother and my brother would still be alive. So much of my life has been coping with the grief of losing them.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2023 source ↗

Mark Gatiss British actor and writer

I was a very lazy child, but I think I’ve made up for it by being a workaholic. I might push some of the work back to my childhood.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 February 2016 source ↗

Patricia Hodge English actress

Not applying myself enough at school.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 September 2018 source ↗

This morning when I woke up. I am generally happy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2015 source ↗

When The Saints Go Marching In, by a New Orleans second line band.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2015 source ↗

On a plane. I become so sentimental on planes: I could be watching Bridesmaids and start crying.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2015 source ↗

People I went to school with who have careers as doctors and teachers.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2015 source ↗

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