Cyndi Lauper: What most recently moved you to tears?

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At a function for the True Colors Fund, where formerly homeless gay and transgender kids were telling their stories. It was heartbreaking.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2014 source ↗

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Roger Allam English actor

Reading aloud the last two pages of a book about Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell. It was about his relationship with his cat, and a letter to a friend whose dog had died. It’s about letting the unexpected happen to you, and how that can really be what life is about.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2017 source ↗

Lesley Sharp British actress

At the end of It’s A Sin by Russell T Davies.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 May 2021 source ↗

Olivia Williams British actress

In rehearsals. The play is very funny about mothers and daughters, but one of the gags hit a raw nerve.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 April 2022 source ↗

Kerry Godliman

I cry all the time. Films can tip me over. Especially Pixar ones. I alarmed my kids when we went to see Coco – I was a mess. I cried at the Elton John gig at Glastonbury.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗

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Question If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be? Identity & self

I’ve constantly been changing myself my whole life. I am what you would call “a piece of work” in progress.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 April 2020 source ↗

Question What do you fear most? Identity & self

A world where greed rules.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗

Question What does happiness look like for you when life is going well? Identity & self

Long walks with my husband. Being with my family. Making music, and writing when songs just fall together. And maybe a cannoli. Just one.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 April 2020 source ↗

Question What trait do you most dislike in other people? Values & belief

Two-faced phony-baloneys.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗

Question What thought won't let you sleep? Daily life

My son. He is a teenager.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2014 source ↗

Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

Aside from my mom, my husband, and my mother-in-law, Gloria Steinem, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and RBG.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗

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