Rupert Graves: 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.

Rupert Graves

English actor

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I’d edit out all my gauche incomprehension.

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

Others on this question

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Alison Moyet English singer

I’d have made more of my education.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2017 source ↗

Heather Graham American actress

I spent too many years being hard on myself, like a drill sergeant in my head. I thought that if I was hard on myself, I’d get more results, but I now know that’s not true.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 March 2016 source ↗

Bianca Jagger Nicaraguan human rights advocate

I sometimes wish I had had the courage to be a politician – but I made the decision to be a human rights defender instead. I realised I cannot be both at the same time, because they may be incompatible.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2020 source ↗

Kiefer Sutherland British and Canadian actor