Rosie Jones: What is your greatest fear?

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.

Recorded Rosie Jones said elsewhere, not written here

Not being liked.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 December 2022 source ↗

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Warren Buffett Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025

And now, you've got nine countries, including, you know, a guy in North Korea. I mean, and there will be, something will happen. And we worried enormously about it when there were two. And we had perfectly, we had really pretty sane leaders in Kennedy and Khrushchev. You know, I mean, you were not dealing with unstable people or anything like that.

Recorded Becky Quick, CNBC “Squawk Box”, recorded in Omaha; CNBC's own transcript of its own broadcast, 31 March 2026 source ↗

Joseph Fiennes English actor

That fear becomes too great.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗

Patti LuPone

Falling onstage…or anywhere.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2024 source ↗

Alfred Molina

Dying alone and in pain.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2024 source ↗

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Question Which moment embarrassed you most? Failure & regret

One time I got so drunk in the Soho theatre in London that I fell asleep in the disabled toilet for two hours. People still call the toilet Rosie’s Bedroom.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 December 2022 source ↗