The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Somebody once told me I was the spitting image of David Cameron.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
A critic once said she wanted to lift a carpet, put me under it and hold it down until I stopped moving.
I like you but I wish you looked more like David Beckham.
“I would love to go on a date with you, but I’d be too embarrassed.”
In a rehearsal just after graduating from drama college, I say my lines to an older actor. He pauses, turns to the director and says: “I’m sorry, but is she going to do it like that?”
The other day, when I decided that maybe I had been too harsh on mid-period Sting.
Making people smaller than they are because of something they can’t handle in themselves.
My interest in Los Angeles.
Like getting out of the right side of the bed every morning, even when you don’t.
As a good friend.
Just. Hanging. On.
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