Their loving forbearance.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 January 2019 source ↗
What do you value most in your friends?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
Question
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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.
Being able to share a confidence.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 August 2018 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 65 →Honesty. Tell me the truth, even if it hurts.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 December 2020 source ↗
John Malkovich
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That they’re kind, trustworthy, smart, and can hear and communicate and aren’t afraid to do so.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 August 2013 source ↗
Discretion and good cheer.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2012 source ↗
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View profile →Being confined in a straitjacket.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗
The delivery room when my children and grandchildren were born.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗
My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 August 2018 source ↗
The inability to listen.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗
I can be pedantic at times.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗
The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 August 2018 source ↗
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