Lily Tomlin: 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 Lily Tomlin said elsewhere, not written here

Being onstage and forgetting why I’m there.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

Heights, and not getting along with people.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 September 2023 source ↗

Any misfortune involving our kids. Also, I have recurring nightmares that involve being chased by people or being attacked by scary animals.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2026 source ↗

Fear is for frightened people. I’m not one of those.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2025 source ↗

That this is all there is, and there is no more.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2009 source ↗

Filling out this Proust Questionnaire. I try to be in the moment.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 source ↗

In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 source ↗

That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 source ↗

My partner, who’s helping me with this Proust Questionnaire.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2022 source ↗

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