I would edit out all the times I smoked a cigarette.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 May 2010 source ↗
The question
If you could edit your past, what would you change?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.
Others on this question
View all 211 →I would have been OK with feeling shy. In my teenage years, I thought being an actor meant that you had to be a little more performative.
Aidan Gillen
Irish actor
The floral waistcoat and shocking-pink shirt combo I wore on my 21st.
Greg James
British author, broadcaster, comedian, and presenter
If I had known what a stylist was when I joined Radio 1, I would have enlisted the help of one.
Joanne Froggatt
English actress
I’d change my mindset and not be so hard on myself, and impart the knowledge that other people’s intentions aren’t always as well-meaning as my own.
More from Alison Goldfrapp
View profile →I like collecting rocks,” she smiles. “I’m obsessed with them. I don’t pick up any old rock; it has to have some kind of interest.
This one!
So yeah, that’s what I always come back to when I need to be inspired. Go outside. Go be with some art. Then go make some art.
Making my passion into a career.
People always want to assume that, as a singer and as a woman, you’re simply the voice. I produce music as well and I’m doing all the artwork and all these other very unglamorous things, like going to marketing meetings. It’s sort of a constant every day process, working on all aspects of the band and the business.
Being told I’m a very good friend.
More on failure & regret
- What has been your biggest disappointment? 374 answers
- Who most deserves an apology from you, and why? 212 answers
- What is the worst thing anyone has said to you? 130 answers
- Which moment embarrassed you most? 126 answers
- How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? 82 answers
- What is the hardest thing that has happened to you, and what did you carry out of it? 41 answers
Also answered this
Emeli Sandé, Ronnie Wood, Kim Wilde, Adam Lambert, Alessia Cara, Jennifer Hudson
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