My kids navigating the world as it is today – and daddy longlegs.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 August 2026 source ↗
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Money & investment
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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.
Losing my marbles.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗
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Lily Tomlin
Comedian and actor
Being onstage and forgetting why I’m there.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2022 source ↗
Joan Rivers
Comedian
Being poor—or, worse, having Kelsey Grammer fight with Teddy Kennedy over who is to drive me home.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗
Marina Abramović
Performance artist
To be eaten by a shark.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 October 2024 source ↗
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View profile →Love makes me feel sick. I get sick with worry about my kids. It keeps me up at night.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗
A Rolls-Royce. I met my wife, Jackie, when I was filming a Lynda La Plante drama called The Governor. I fell in love with her instantly and I was bullshitting that I had a Rolls-Royce. When I finished filming, she decided to leave her country and come and live with me in London. On the way to the airport, I phoned my PA and said, “Go and buy a Rolls-Royce.”
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗
Selfishness and cruelty.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗
To my parents for all the mess-ups. There have been times when I’ve been going through something and I’ve thought, God, I’m so glad my mum and dad are dead, because they don’t have to go through it with me.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗
Cowardice. There are so many issues that I would like to express opinions about but I’m too scared to stick my head above the parapet because of the social media pile-on.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗
Filming a TV show in a field in the snow in February in the Dublin hills for 14 hours; the director said, “We’re not going to get that shot today.”
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗
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