Omid Djalili: What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?

What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Omid Djalili said elsewhere, not written here

"Which side shall I comb it over?"

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗

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David Hare Playwright and screenwriter

I don't think you should do the serious stuff, you're not cut out for it.

Recorded Tim Lewis, Observer New Review Q&A, The Guardian, 20 January 2013 source ↗

Ben Okri

“You don’t stand a chance of succeeding as a writer in this country. The demographics are against you.” They were wrong. The only demographic that counts is the human heart.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 July 2026 source ↗

Desmond Tutu Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984

There will always be so many who might say, “Ah, he’s a politician masquerading as an archbishop.” Politics is so all-pervasive, and in my theology, obviously, all of life belongs to God, and you don’t have compartments, this is your economic life, this is your political life, this is your religious life. Religion encompasses all of those. But yes, I wouldn’t myself have said I was setting out to be a political animal.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗

Erin O'Connor English model