Julian Lloyd Webber
British cellist and conductor
Nothing: the good times, the bad times, they make your character.
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Question
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
Question
What most recently made you cry?
Identity & self
Question
What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
Question
What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
Question
Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
Question
What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I wouldn’t have tried to break up a fight when I was 17.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 February 2020 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 205 →
Ian McEwan
British novelist and screenwriter
To have grown up with my siblings. They were at least 10 years older than me.
Jodi Picoult
American author
I would not let Nick Cassavetes direct My Sister’s Keeper, the film. He said [the ending] was going to match what was in the book, then changed it.
I would do more weightlifting than aerobics. Strong is better than skinny.
More from Ralf Little
View profile →Having a 23-year acting career with no qualifications.
Watching the film The Iron Giant slays me every time.
For two weeks I worked behind the players’ bar at Bolton Wanderers football club – footballers don’t tip.
Simply as a man who put a smile on the face of everyone he met.
A watch that begins with an R.
Worry about work: it’s a precarious business being an actor.
More on failure & regret
- What has been your biggest disappointment? 369 answers
- Who most deserves an apology from you, and why? 209 answers
- What is the worst thing anyone has said to you? 124 answers
- Which moment embarrassed you most? 124 answers
- How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? 77 answers
- What is the hardest thing that has happened to you, and what did you carry out of it? 39 answers
Also answered this
Samuel West, David Jason, Jack Whitehall, Julia Stiles, Edward Fox, Riz Ahmed
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All failure & regret questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject