Waking up in the morning is as perfect as anything gets.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Question
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
Question
What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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.
Life with no Instagram and no selfies. I am so tired of looking at people staring out of the window of a private plane with a small dog in their laps.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 February 2020 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 158 →
John Malkovich
Actor
Watching seeds grow in the greenhouse. Drawing or reading or cooking.
To be wildly, desperately, carelessly, nakedly in love, of course. Crazy, obsessive love: brooding, baying at the moon, writing daily missives to the adored. Who wouldn’t want this? Even though the crash is painful.
When, as a university freshman, I would go to the ocean in the summer and free-dive all day long.
More from Tom Ford
View profile →Gloria Steinem.
Couples who have to be sat side by side at L.A. dinner parties. What is that all about?!
More on identity & self
- What is your greatest fear? 256 answers
- Which trait do you most dislike in yourself? 243 answers
- What did you want to be when you were growing up? 195 answers
- What most recently made you cry? 193 answers
- How would you describe yourself in three words? 111 answers
- What are you most proud of? 103 answers
Also answered this
Christine Baranski, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brooke Shields, Garrison Keillor, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All identity & self questions
- The The Proust Questionnaire questionnaire — 5 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject