David Hyde Pierce: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

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

Recorded David Hyde Pierce said elsewhere, not written here

I would be a better, faster, and more faithful writer of letters and e-mails, and returner of phone calls.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 April 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

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Yo-Yo Ma Cellist

My inability to keep track of personal possessions.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 June 2016 source ↗

Martin Scorsese

First of all, I’d like to stop complaining—I’m beginning to annoy myself. I would like to learn to read faster, however. Again, the rest I’ve learned to live with.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 February 2010 source ↗

Antonio Banderas

The age. I would like to be 30 years old now.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 12 December 2019 source ↗

Kazuo Ishiguro Novelist and screenwriter; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2017

I always dreamt of having a second stomach I could carry around in a bag, which I could attach to my real stomach when I sat down in restaurants. That way, I could eat a huge amount, never gaining weight.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 9 March 2023 source ↗