Robert De Niro: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Robert De Niro said elsewhere, not written here

I’m certainly not going to tell it here.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2013 source ↗

Others on this question

Laziness, wasting time. I’d like to be able to make films faster.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗

John Mellencamp Singer and songwriter

My quick temper and the chaos that ensues in the hurricane that follows.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2015 source ↗

Carl Barât English musician

Fear and all of its consequences.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 March 2022 source ↗

I’m terribly impatient.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2025 source ↗

I am the way I am, and I can’t change that. Why even think about it?

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 February 2013 source ↗

My wife going on The Real Housewives of New York City.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2013 source ↗

In my sleep. And I don’t think about it. It’ll be what it’ll be.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 February 2013 source ↗

Self-importance, arrogance.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2013 source ↗

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