Guy Pearce
Australian actor
I wish I could go back and not be the anxious child that I was. I spent the first 25 years of my life just trying to survive human interaction.
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I am a living self-help book – I’ve managed to train myself to never regret anything.
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Judith Kerr
British writer and illustrator
Nothing, really, because it was all interesting.
Emeli Sandé
British singer
I would instil confidence in my younger self.
Heather Graham
American actress
I spent too many years being hard on myself, like a drill sergeant in my head. I thought that if I was hard on myself, I’d get more results, but I now know that’s not true.
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View profile →Our family song – Three Is A Magic Number, which my husband played me on the way back from the maternity hospital.
A beautiful, sequined dress for a showbiz function. It was pushing £1,850.
To my grandma Faye, because I didn’t realise, when I was growing up, what an icon she was. She fought at Cable Street, and worked her arse off to get the family out of the tenements. She had a lot of wisdom to impart.
An actress. My family thought it was ridiculous, it was like saying you wanted to be an astronaut.
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