Peter Sarsgaard: What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life? — FLAPSS

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What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?

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Peter Sarsgaard

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It would improve the quality of all of our lives if we just got rid of all unessential vehicles in New York City.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 February 2024 source ↗

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An eighth day in the week – just for me, no one else.

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Leeds United signing a decent striker.

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More money. Sounds terrible, but money is the energy of change.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 May 2014 source ↗

Finding a partner.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 September 2023 source ↗

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Stimulating in every way.

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Nurturing, musical, uncompromising.

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When I was first acting, in college, a relative came and saw me in Hedda Gabler and she said: “Look in the mirror, you’re not an actor. An actor looks like Mel Gibson.”

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Question When were you most embarrassed? Failure & regret

I was doing The Seagull with Carey Mulligan and Kristin Scott Thomas on Broadway. I walked out on stage and looked at Carey and said: “I’ve no idea what to say.” It was pretty deep into the run and it took me by surprise.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 February 2024 source ↗

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Caddying for really rich people at this country club in Connecticut when I was a teenager. They would talk like I wasn’t there so I would hear all about their lives, their affairs and their stupidity, and yet I couldn’t say anything.

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