Anna Friel
English actress
Finding out I was pregnant when I’d been told it would be difficult to have children.
When were you happiest?
Question
Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
Question
What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
Question
What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
Question
What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
Question
Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
Originally asked
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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When I was young and carefree, before I realised what the obstacles were that we face as black people. I was raised in a beautiful home with incredible parents. They allowed me to enjoy what it was to be a child.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 December 2020 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 579 →
Alan Johnson
British politician
When my son was born in 2000.
David Hare
Playwright and screenwriter
I took Nicole out to dinner for the first time on 19 October, 1991. After that, everything changed.
Nora Ephron
Journalist, essayist, screenwriter and film director
Yesterday – I had a delicious tomato sandwich, on toasted sourdough bread, with mayonnaise.
More from Busta Rhymes
View profile →I bought myself a diamond pinky ring for two million dollars.
Creating. When everyone goes to bed and then you have six or seven hours to create peacefully. I’ve become nocturnal. Even on a night when I am not in the studio, I still won’t go to sleep till six in the morning.
I always wanted to be a rapper.
To be in a position to empower my entire family with generational wealth.
To my father, for the time that was lost when we weren’t getting along. We were able to reconcile a few months before he passed away five years ago.
More on time & hindsight
- What is the most important lesson life has taught you? 139 answers
- What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore? 81 answers
- What scares you about getting older? 61 answers
- What is the best advice you have ever received? 29 answers
- If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere, what would it say and why? 24 answers
- What is something you were told by a parent, teacher, or mentor that you still repeat to yourself? 23 answers
Also answered this
Kellie Maloney, Philip Treacy, Patti LuPone, Gloria Estefan, Julie Delpy, Simon Russell Beale
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All time & hindsight questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject