Michael Douglas: When were you happiest?

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.

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

Recorded Michael Douglas said elsewhere, not written here

The 60s at the University of California at Santa Barbara weren’t bad.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2011 source ↗

Others on this question

Cybill Shepherd American actress and former model

Visiting my children at college. I don't stay long, because their lives are so busy - the way they should be.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗

Clara Amfo Broadcaster

When I was 11 and we got Sky TV.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 August 2020 source ↗

Viv Albertine Australian-born British musician and writer

The moment my daughter was born in 1999, because it took me seven years to conceive.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 October 2020 source ↗

Kevin Pietersen English cricketer

With no shoes on in the African bush with my family.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2019 source ↗

Personal: health. Globally: nuclear weapons.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2011 source ↗

Any cancer survivor.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2011 source ↗

If I haven’t seen them in years and yet can pick up conversation like it was yesterday.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 March 2011 source ↗

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