Losing family, friends, and loved ones.
What is your greatest fear?
Question
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
Question
What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
Question
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
Question
What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
Question
What does love feel like?
Relationships
Question
What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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.
I’m terrified of time. The people I love are getting older and time seems to be going faster and faster. It’s scary. I’d like it to slow down, please.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 May 2024 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 273 →Losing my mind.
Regrets. That’s no way to live.
Cybill Shepherd
American actress and former model
Dying in a plane crash and having somebody else get top billing.
More from Eleanor Tomlinson
View profile →Talk to people. Learn from them. And put your phone away.
Losing out on a role, any role. I get so invested. I can take rejection, but only when useful feedback is given.
Narcissism. And people coughing on me in public.
Endless acting jobs.
Relief and an achy feeling in your cheeks from smiling.
“You were amazing in Game of Thrones.” I say it’s the worst thing – it’s also the best!
More on identity & self
- Which trait do you most dislike in yourself? 256 answers
- What did you want to be when you were growing up? 215 answers
- What most recently made you cry? 193 answers
- What is your idea of perfect happiness? 165 answers
- How would you describe yourself in three words? 120 answers
- What are you most proud of? 114 answers
Also answered this
Robert De Niro, Sally Field, Michael Flatley, Cybill Shepherd, Dolly Parton, Jane Asher
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