Samuel West: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Samuel West said elsewhere, not written here

I’d have done everything earlier and with more style.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 October 2020 source ↗

Others on this question

Ralf Little English actor, writer, former semi-professional footballer

I wouldn’t have tried to break up a fight when I was 17.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 February 2020 source ↗

Julian Clary English actor, comedian, novelist and presenter

My education. Benedictine monks didn’t really prepare me for the life I have lived.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2022 source ↗

Harriet Walter English actress

I would never have gone on a diet. I would go back with the knowledge that not being perfect is fine.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2017 source ↗

Jodi Picoult American author

I would not let Nick Cassavetes direct My Sister’s Keeper, the film. He said [the ending] was going to match what was in the book, then changed it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 September 2022 source ↗

Greta Thunberg. For setting an example and fighting hatred with humour.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 October 2020 source ↗

As someone who gave it a go.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 October 2020 source ↗

A DJ. I still do.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 October 2020 source ↗

Decent arts funding.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 October 2020 source ↗

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