Jason Isaacs: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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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.

Recorded Jason Isaacs said elsewhere, not written here

I wouldn’t have spent so much time trying to be a professional skateboarder or snooker player.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 November 2020 source ↗

Others on this question

Michael Kiwanuka English singer-songwriter

Nothing. Everything happens for a reason.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 November 2019 source ↗

Ricky Wilson Singer; frontman of Kaiser Chiefs

I might have carried on doing The Voice.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2020 source ↗

Greg James British author, broadcaster, comedian, and presenter

If I had known what a stylist was when I joined Radio 1, I would have enlisted the help of one.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2019 source ↗

Moments of vanity, carelessness and unkindness.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2026 source ↗

That we waited so long to have children, we only have two.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 November 2020 source ↗

That way madness lies.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 November 2020 source ↗

Anybody who met me before I was 30, because I was a drug addict, and all my relationships were experienced through that prism.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 November 2020 source ↗

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