Guy Pearce
Australian actor
My fear of confrontation.
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The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Impatience. My dad said I was born in a hurry.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 January 2023 source ↗
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View all 243 →Impatience and vanity.
My internalised misogyny that still manages to cloud some of my thinking.
I don’t say that I’m perfect but there’s nothing that I deplore.
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View profile →I was in Kensington Gardens and this couple stopped me and said: “Hey, could we get a picture? I said: “Sure.” I put my arms around their shoulders, and they looked at me and said: “No, can you take a picture of us?”
The most intensive and beautiful golden sunlight. It’s the strongest force in the universe.
People mistaking my kindness for weakness and stealing from me.
In the Sultan of Brunei’s will.
My wife dying. I wouldn’t know how to go on.
“Oh, he’s all about money.” I’ve never charged anyone in all the years I’ve been doing one-to-one work. That’s my gift to the world.
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