Alfred Molina: When were you happiest?

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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.

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Recorded Alfred Molina said elsewhere, not written here

My first payday as a professional actor, knowing this was the beginning of the rest of my life, and the day my daughter told me I wasn’t the worst dad in the world.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2024 source ↗

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Vince Cable British politician

My best times have been around my family.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2009 source ↗

Lucy Worsley English historian

I think you can be happy every day, if you are in the flow.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2017 source ↗

Paul Weller English singer-songwriter and musician

I'm nearly always happy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 June 2014 source ↗

Laverne Cox

At the SAG awards in 2016. I remember going into that night saying to myself, “I might not be here again; let me be fully in the moment.” The cast of Orange Is the New Black won the acting-ensemble award for the second year in a row, and I was there with a man I truly loved. That night was everything I had always dreamed about.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2018 source ↗