Racism and bigotry.
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
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How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure?
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What is the part of your job that people would be surprised is most of your job?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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What is the best advice you have ever received?
Time & hindsight
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don't like people who are selfish.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2009 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 210 →Not listening to me.
Looking down at other people. I was brought up to treat people as you treat yourself, with respect. The people you meet on the way up are the people you meet on the way down.
The ability to stress me out.
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View profile →To never, never, never give up.
Every bad thing that’s happened, apart from Mum and Dad dying, it’s always led to something better. Always.
Getting the job is the work. Playing the character, you’d do it for nothing. It’s fun.
My tendency to be inappropriate.
The same as most people. Money and, will I ever work again?
I spent years trying to work out the secret of acting. I read all the books by the great teachers and got nowhere. They were so busy making it sound complex. I just couldn’t figure it out. Then one day my acting coach in LA told me to ‘think before you act’. It was so simple – when you are acting don’t just speak the words, but concentrate and think about what you are going to say all the time. It worked for me.
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