Jimmy Akingbola
British-Nigerian TV, theatre and film actor
I am not sure I’ve really been in love.
What does love feel like?
Question
How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
Question
What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
Question
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
Question
What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
Question
When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
Question
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A wonderful, terribly exciting disease.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 212 →
Daryl McCormack
Irish actor
A sense of home.
Jodie Whittaker
English actress
A tumble dryer.
Like getting out of the right side of the bed every morning, even when you don’t.
More from John Waters
View profile →Just thinking about unsafe sex.
Nothing, I can sleep everywhere but an aeroplane.
Judgmental without investigation.
An unreadable wig.
Chasing after fire engines as a child with my dad and watching neighbours' houses burn to the ground.
That I live a life with no contact with arseholes.
More on relationships
Also answered this · A–Z
Adjoa Andoh, Alison Steadman, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Serkis, Ann Dowd, Anna Friel
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All relationships questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject