What has been your biggest disappointment?

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Recorded Cybill Shepherd said elsewhere, not written here
Not doing more movies.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗

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Josette Simon British actor
That my parents and my siblings were so shocked and appalled by my changing my path, from university to deciding to be an actor, that they have never seen anything I’ve done.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 April 2022 source ↗
I spent my life searching for family. I travelled around the world to look each one of them in the eye. Unfortunately, but understandably, for most of them, I am their biggest disappointment.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2023 source ↗
Tracey Ullman British and American actress
Realising as I grew up that people don’t really know what they’re doing.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2017 source ↗

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