Robert Evans: 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 Robert Evans said elsewhere, not written here

At the altar all seven times.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2013 source ↗

Others on this question

Trevor McDonald British newsreader and journalist

As a young child in the West Indies and having fun with my friends, playing sport and hanging about.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 January 2011 source ↗

Jonathan Safran Foer American novelist

Leaving the hospital.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2012 source ↗

Any time I’m in rehearsals.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 June 2026 source ↗

Samira Ahmed British journalist and writer

On stage, interviewing one of my heroes, Paul McCartney, at the Royal Festival Hall last November.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 January 2022 source ↗

False humility.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2013 source ↗

Flirting with danger.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2013 source ↗

Being there through thin and thin. That’s friendship treasured.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 December 2013 source ↗

Anyone who can laugh at themselves.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2013 source ↗

Search the directory for somebody in particular.