There are a lot of kicks out there in taekwondo that are flashy, so I like all of those. My favourite is probably chop because I’m better at it than the others. But I like a good back kick if I can nail it well.
Questioning authority can hardly be called our national pastime. We even make a philosophy out of fear. Fatalism, destiny, karma… are the favourite cultural holes we hide in when authority flogs us. And what’s our tragedy.
I’ve been happy from the start at Newcastle. It has been my favourite club ever since I was small boy in Serbia.
For me, my favourite music was things like The Bee Gees, ABBA and ‘The White Album.’ The 70s is the period that I love more than anything.
My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I’ve just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It’s a lovely pool, inside a converted barn. Usually it’s just me and a couple of other swimmers there.
Spending time in airports and planes is probably my least favourite part of being a tennis player.
I’m not into superhero movies, but I love cartoons. Tweety bird is my favourite.
I have stayed in lots of great hotels around the world, and the Plaza Athenee is definitely one of my favourites.
Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.
I cook anything, be it vegetarian or non-vegetarian. But mutton dishes are my favourite.
I don’t spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That’s my least favourite place in the world.
My favourite English player of my time was Paul Gascoigne. I interviewed him several times, always entertaining.
Even as she approaches 90, the Queen is sometimes glimpsed with her headscarf tied firmly under her chin riding her favourite hack, Emma – one of the fell ponies she breeds.
My son was so excited about me doing three roles, and Jo and my parents loved the craft work and visuals, and I think ’24’ will be the most favourite movie of mine at home, and they are all waiting to watch the film in theaters.
I like ‘Ab Fab;’ I love the crazy stuff they wear. That’s my favourite! I love ‘Ab Fab.’
I have a secret passion for horse riding. I haven’t done it for ages, but I used to have a horse. I love it; it’s one of my favourite things.
My favourite type of pizza is a Napoletana: tomatoes, mozzarella, and very few anchovies. It must have a thin base.
My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I’d win the 200m.
I prefer to be favourites on the pitch; not with words.
Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.
I think, for the benefit of our parents, the perfect night out would be when Cate and I touch the wall and we tie. This is what they dream – that we’ll both win. Because then they don’t have to pick a favourite child.
‘Atonement’ is one of my all-time favourite movies.
Klopp helped me play my favourite position again – centre-forward.
I cannot pick one single forest to be a favourite, but I am in love with the Indian jungles – be it Madhumalai and Kabini in South India or Tadoba and Pench National Park in Maharashtra. The wildlife in Satpura and Corbett National Park can’t be missed, either.
One of my favourite books of all time: ‘The Great Gatsby’. I just think it’s so well written.
My favourite dinner is a cup of tea and a ham sandwich with English mustard.
Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it’s really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.
My favourite book in the world is ‘Neuromancer’ by William Gibson.
The nightlife in Baltimore is very mixed. Any gay people I know go to the hipster bars; they don’t go to the gay bars. Start your night at the Club Charles, and then you can meet people to go other places. The Charles has been Baltimore’s favourite cool hipster bar forever.
My first favourite book was ‘Are You My Mother?’ A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.’ A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure.
David Silva at Man City was my favourite player to play with; we had a good understanding on the pitch.
HeyHey is my favourite app. It’s like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people’s days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it’s nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
You could be an 18-year-old girl in Tokyo wondering how you could ever break into fashion or beauty, so you follow your favourite designer or editor, see what their day comprises, where they go, who they meet, how they do it… If I were setting up my own label today, I would definitely do it through Instagram.
My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn – I was named after her – and Cary Grant. I just love old black and white movies and the stars in them. It must have been a great time to be in Hollywood.
The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it’s my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men’s national team around when they play whenever I can.
The ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread ‘Aslan’ as ‘Alsatian’ and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!
My favourite day is like when it’s raining, and I can just lie on the couch.
A lot of my favourite songs have Eno involved, but I love the work he does on the first two Roxy Music albums. He’s creating atmospheres as opposed to composition, and it’s a beautiful mixture with everything else in that band.
I would say Neymar is my favourite young player. I love the way that he plays.
I think it’s one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.
I was raised in New York, so that’s the greatest city in the world to me, but if you take that out of the equation, then London is my favourite city, and I’m a huge fan of Dublin as well.
I used to listen to my music on the bus. It was one of my favourite things, to look out the window and over at the Jacques Cartier Bridge and Parc Jean-Drapeau.
I always bring an orange scarf, not just so I can wear it or tuck it into my pocket, but also so I can throw it over a lamp in the hotel room. Orange is my favourite colour, and it gives a lovely, warm ambience.
There I am, watching Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of my favourite actors in the world, walk into the room dressed up as Father Christmas, being hilarious, and I’m suddenly thinking, ‘Where am I?’
Choosing between the 50 m and 100 m is like choosing between your children. I have favourites on different days.
Being someone who plays gigs and finding many, many memorable ones in different ways, I guess I’d have to say I don’t really have a single favourite one that I could pick out.
My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic – that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth.
‘The Wizard of Oz’ is my favourite. It explains what life on this planet is about. Although Dorothy reaches Oz, she finds she had what she needed to go back to Kansas all along, but the Good Witch tells her that she had to learn it for herself. All of the answers to the meaning of life are there.
I don’t even know what my favourite food is anymore, as they are all such bad foods!
Action movies haven’t been encouraging in my case. Nevertheless, this is my favourite genre.
While shooting for ‘Kaatru Veliyidai,’ I was living my childhood dream of working with my favourite director. It was surreal and thrilling at the same time.
‘The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
I couldn’t choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro.
I have, like, a playlist with all my favourite songs on it. Sadie’s Playlist is the soundtrack of my life. ‘Wonderwall’ by Oasis, ‘Under The Bridge’ by Red Hot Chili Peppers, TLC, ‘Waterfalls’ – I love the ’90s.
You know the press and the TV. There are those who are favourites and those who are not. I was one of the latter.
I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I’ve become completely absorbed.
I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical – even if the movies have no music in them at all.
I am certainly Italian in my love of food! I eat everything, but I love Italian food most of all. Even my daughter does. Her favourite food is pasta and parmigiana.
At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.
Ever since I was a kid, I had been a Liverpool fan – they were my favourite Premier League club.
