I’ll know it when I see it. Hello, Room 101.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2014 source ↗
What is your greatest fear?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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.
Being poor—or, worse, having Kelsey Grammer fight with Teddy Kennedy over who is to drive me home.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗
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Rita Moreno
Actor, singer and dancer
The thought that I might die with unresolved conflicts.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2022 source ↗
Crashing in an aeroplane into an ocean at night.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗
Losing a loved one.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2024 source ↗
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View profile →Coming offstage after a five-minute standing ovation, falling into the arms of my lover, and having the doctor look at me and say, “This is impossible! She looks much too young to go!”
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 4 September 2014 source ↗
None. Unfortunately, we are in an age of antiheroes.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗
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