The question
What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
If I needed less sleep.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 June 2026 source ↗
If you’d asked me last year, I would have said a knee replacement.
A home on the shores of Lake Como.
An eighth day in the week – just for me, no one else.
If war stopped.
A wedding ring.
I started my career not getting jobs, but then you learn that 95% of this job is not getting jobs, and you just have to make peace with it.
An actor. I watched a lot of TV because we lived in the countryside and the weather was so bad.
You are your own greatest asset.
Any time I’m in rehearsals.
My mother, because when I’m stressed, I can be really horrible to her.
Felicity Jones, Paul Giamatti, Karamo Brown, Ralph Steadman, Sarah Parish, Graydon Carter
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