Stephen Graham
English actor
My wife, Hannah. She’s amazing and keeps me in check. I met her 24 years ago at drama school.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The exact median middle-aged black woman in the US. If hard work guaranteed success, she’d be the most successful person on the planet. But she isn’t, yet she keeps on going.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2025 source ↗
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Rob Brydon
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Rod Stewart. For obvious reasons.
James Norton
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Greta Thunberg, for obvious reasons.
It will be the one or two or three senior Republican leaders who take a public and forceful stand against the ugly lunacy of the Trump administration.
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A painting by Renoir, paid for by demanding a huge fee for a screenwriting deal with a producer I didn’t want to work for. The movie was never made.
Do the secret thing you know you were born to do.
First loved, then laid, then paid.
In 1993, making love on the beach of a deserted island in the Bahamas.
Always saying yes to people. For example, I’m doing this.
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