Jason Isaacs: What has been your biggest disappointment?

Originally asked

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

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Recorded Jason Isaacs said elsewhere, not written here

That we waited so long to have children, we only have two.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 November 2020 source ↗

Others on this question

Kate Nash British musician

That all the cliches about people in the music industry are true.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 May 2019 source ↗

Jake Shears Singer and songwriter; co-lead vocalist of Scissor Sisters

The realisation that I am no longer young.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 July 2021 source ↗

Losing the 1992 general election.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗

The internet. Such potential for good and for levelling up the world, but such a quagmire in reality.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗

I wouldn’t have spent so much time trying to be a professional skateboarder or snooker player.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 November 2020 source ↗

That way madness lies.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 November 2020 source ↗

Anybody who met me before I was 30, because I was a drug addict, and all my relationships were experienced through that prism.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 November 2020 source ↗

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