As not being a total bollix.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 July 2025 source ↗
The question
How would you want people to remember you?Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As not being a total bollix.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 July 2025 source ↗
I’d like people to say, “Well, he was a bit odd, he was a bit funny.”
I tried my best.
As someone with integrity.
As someone who made you think that anything’s possible. I did three marathons in a day once but walking the high-wire at Battersea Park station was the challenge I loved most because I had to master a skill.
Hopeful, egalitarian, overweight.
As a young actor, again at the Citizens theatre, I was making an exit and a theatregoer leaned over the balcony and said, “You’re terrible!”
My penchant for having just one too many.
An inability to get myself to bed at a reasonable hour.
Not being able to fend for myself and being a burden to others.
Ulysses by James Joyce, but I might make a start next week – or the week after that …
Daniel Mays, Paul O'Grady, Gloria Steinem, Daphne Guinness, Ray Mears, Billy Crudup
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