Daryl McCormack
Irish actor
Not actualising my full potential.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 February 2023 source ↗
What is your greatest fear?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Death & what remains
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
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Having a great fear.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2023 source ↗
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Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗
Maureen O'Hara
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Not getting into heaven.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2014 source ↗
Being on my deathbed and realising I’d forgotten to treat each day as the miracle that it is.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗
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View profile →My biggest disappointment would be living with disappointment. What a burden to be shackled to. I would be truly disappointed if I didn’t (as the song says) pick myself up, dust myself off, and start all over again.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2023 source ↗
Like falling – endlessly – and then discovering you have wings.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2023 source ↗
The inability to negotiate peace and truly forgive.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2023 source ↗
As a kind person who cared for others.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2023 source ↗
I would deplore feeling deplorable about myself.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2023 source ↗
That we are all no more and no less than a single thread in a gigantic web of life. What we do and how we behave has repercussions for the entire web.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2023 source ↗
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