Guy Pearce: What keeps you awake at night?

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Recorded Guy Pearce said elsewhere, not written here

If I’ve spent money that I shouldn’t have or treated someone badly.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗

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Bianca Jagger Nicaraguan human rights advocate

The climate catastrophe.

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

Sheryl Crow American singer-songwriter

The state of our government and the direction that this crazy person is taking us in.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2017 source ↗

The children. As a mother you are constantly worrying whether you’ve done the right thing.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 September 2025 source ↗

Katharine Hamnett English fashion designer

Threat of nuclear war, Iran/US situation, Syria, everything. I take sleeping pills.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 September 2019 source ↗

I wish I could go back and not be the anxious child that I was. I spent the first 25 years of my life just trying to survive human interaction.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗

I felt like I messed up my marriage. I don’t feel that way any more, but at the time I was devastated.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗

A guitar – a 1959 Gibson 335.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗

My fear of confrontation.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗

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