Rita Moreno: What do you value most in your friends?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.

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

Recorded Rita Moreno said elsewhere, not written here

That they don’t give a tinker’s damn about my celebrity.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 7 January 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

Those who are both loyal and can cook.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2019 source ↗

Their ability to make me laugh from the gut.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 21 February 2018 source ↗

Discretion and love of New Orleans—my favorite city. These two go hand in hand.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 29 March 2018 source ↗

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Basketball player and author

Loyalty. Not fawning, but a loyalty based on our shared love and history that fosters compassion and forgiveness.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 27 August 2020 source ↗

Wow! Like, the way people mess up language. I mean, it makes me crazy, y’know?

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2022 source ↗

Short-term memory.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2022 source ↗

The thought that I might die with unresolved conflicts.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2022 source ↗

With a malicious grin that implies I know something you don’t.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 7 January 2022 source ↗

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