Robert Evans: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Robert Evans said elsewhere, not written here

At the altar all seven times.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2013 source ↗

Others on this question

Ian Wright English footballer and pundit

1990 FA Cup final, playing for Crystal Palace.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2019 source ↗

Daniel Clowes American cartoonist and writer

Probably in the past few years, though maybe it's just some mid-life hormonal surge.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2012 source ↗

Angela Eagle British politician

The day of my civil partnership.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2012 source ↗

In Macon, Georgia, during my childhood. I knew everybody there—it was like the whole town was your family. I felt complete there.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2001 source ↗

Being there through thin and thin. That’s friendship treasured.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 December 2013 source ↗

Flirting with danger.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2013 source ↗

Anyone who can laugh at themselves.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2013 source ↗

False humility.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2013 source ↗

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