They want nothing but friendship.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 June 2025 source ↗
What do you value most in your friends?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
Question
When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
Question
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
Question
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
Question
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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What is your greatest fear?
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.
Taking daily showers and always being there when I need them.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 14 December 2021 source ↗
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Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 March 2011 source ↗
They take my calls.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 April 2017 source ↗
My closest friends have always been my clients and coworkers, their love and loyalty, not to mention their amazing talents!
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 4 April 2023 source ↗
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View profile →Being too damned self-absorbed.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2021 source ↗
Probably during my childhood growing up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2021 source ↗
Never picking up the check.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2021 source ↗
Being in a Broadway theater full of people laughing their heads off at one of my shows.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 14 December 2021 source ↗
Probably me, but I don’t think I’m supposed to say that!
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2021 source ↗
A Broadway theater filled with nothing but critics.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2021 source ↗
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