Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗
Acting, when you don’t want to do it or you disagree with everything, is almost like having sex with someone you don’t like. I had one experience like that on stage, in a terrible version of The Cherry Orchard. I put on a wig, dark-coloured contacts and just hoped no one would recognise me.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 September 2020 source ↗
Selling low-grade cookery books in west London office buildings.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗
I worked in a unisex clothes store for three days. Girls would say, 'Do I look fat in this?' I'd say, 'Yes.' I was fired.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗
In Brooklyn, I was a dishwasher in a sandwich shop.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 May 2018 source ↗
On stage – the Old Vic in 1981 and Glastonbury last year.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗
Insanity. I am on a recovery programme – clean from drugs and drink for many years – and if I stopped doing all that stuff I’d go crazy pretty quick and pick up drugs again, because I was a real fucking addict.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗
Gerry Adams, because he’s got incredible integrity and vision, and he’s had to put up with so much flak.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗
My dad said, “You’re going nowhere.” I was seven or eight.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗
Shakespeare said, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” – I think that’s true.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗
My brother Pete passing on in 2005.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗
Adam Kay, Adeel Akhtar, Adjoa Andoh, Adrian Dunbar, Adrian Edmondson, Aidan Gillen
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