Renée Zellweger: What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?

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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?

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Any recent gathering with friends and family; yesterday, running by the ocean; anytime, solving a problem or creating something. Right now, in bed with news and popcorn.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2017 source ↗

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Julian Clary English actor, comedian, novelist and presenter

Sydney mardi gras, 1993.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2022 source ↗

Aidan Gillen Irish actor

I won a local art competition aged 10 – the first time I’d won anything.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2017 source ↗

Oti Mabuse South African dancer

When I realised that I was meant to be a dancer, aged 19.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2019 source ↗

Ann Patchett American author

Before email was invented.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 April 2017 source ↗

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Question What do you fear most? Identity & self

Incapacitation.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2017 source ↗

Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

Jimmy Carter. Michelle Obama. Barack Obama. Geoffrey Canada. Tank Man. Marian Wright Edelman. Madeleine Albright. King Abdullah II of Jordan. Norman Lear. Malala Yousafzai. Beyoncé Knowles.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2017 source ↗

Question What does happiness look like for you when life is going well? Identity & self

A free day anywhere with a good dog.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 February 2017 source ↗

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