Mathew Horne
English actor
Insomnia. I go to bed at 9.30pm and listen to Radio 4.
What keeps you awake at night?
Question
What does love feel like?
Relationships
Question
What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
Question
What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
Question
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
Question
Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
Question
What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Weirdly, sometimes exhaustion keeps me awake. If I am really tired, I won’t sleep well.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 February 2023 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 198 →
Joan Collins
English actress and writer
Worrying about my children.
Busta Rhymes
American rapper
Creating. When everyone goes to bed and then you have six or seven hours to create peacefully. I’ve become nocturnal. Even on a night when I am not in the studio, I still won’t go to sleep till six in the morning.
George Michael
English singer-songwriter
My dogs demanding my undivided attention.
More from Daryl McCormack
View profile →A sense of home.
Not actualising my full potential.
Less phone use.
To trust in the process.
Missing a cue on stage. I had to come on and move a piece of furniture with another actor and I completely forgot. I looked at the monitor and said, “Why is he standing on his own?” And somebody said, “Aren’t you meant to help him?”
For being joyful.
More on daily life
- What single thing would improve the quality of your life? 207 answers
- What is an unusual habit or an absurd thing that you love? 36 answers
- When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? 25 answers
- In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no to? 23 answers
- In the last five years, what new belief, behaviour, or habit has most improved your life? 21 answers
- What does the first sixty minutes of your day look like? 20 answers
Also answered this
Anna Paquin, Oti Mabuse, Kathleen Turner, Simon Callow, Olivia Colman, Omid Djalili
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All daily life questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject