Ethan Hawke: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could revise one chapter of 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.

Ethan Hawke

Actor, director and novelist

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Too many things to mention.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 April 2015 source ↗

Others on this question

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Tim Rice English lyricist and author

I would definitely change the way one or two relationships ended.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2017 source ↗

Carlos Acosta Cuban ballet dancer

The time I told my father I hated him, causing him a lot of pain. He passed away six years ago, and my mother eight years ago.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 September 2018 source ↗

Rupert Graves English actor

I’d edit out all my gauche incomprehension.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 January 2015 source ↗

Adwoa Aboah British fashion model

Nothing. Everything’s got me to this point and I had to learn lots of things. Maybe I just wouldn’t have been so terrified all the time and I would have got up a bit earlier – I missed quite a few mornings.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2019 source ↗

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I love being a father. I think there’s a great lie that we tell kids that pleasure creates happiness. Young people think: “Oh, if I get this, I’ll be happy.” But in a lot of ways it’s meeting your responsibilities that makes you happy. For me, I’ve just found that feeling like I’ve done a good job with the kids is a real source of happiness for me.

Recorded The Talks, 16 May 2012 source ↗