Willem Dafoe
Actor
A crippling accident.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
People laughing at me, which is terrible for someone who makes a living out of making people laugh.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 June 2022 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 255 →That I take this questionnaire too seriously and reveal my crimes and misdemeanors, or I treat this questionnaire too flippantly and bring shame to the House of Proust.
The fact that, until recently, “the end of the world” would have seemed pretentious and evasive, and now seems like the only possible answer.
Falling onstage…or anywhere.
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I’d like a manoeuvre called after me, in the way Heimlich has.
Lack of self-doubt.
I have become progressively happier as I’ve got older. It’s to do with not striving as much.
The day I had to stop playing football five years ago. I realised I couldn’t hack it any more.
My dog wanting to go out for a wee.
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