Rita Moreno: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Rita Moreno said elsewhere, not written here

Short-term memory.

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

Others on this question

Time blindness.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 December 2025 source ↗

Vick Hope British television and radio presenter

I can’t say no. I am a people-pleaser, and it means that I burn myself out because I take on too much.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 August 2022 source ↗

Stealing from the elderly and then acting real cocky about it.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2014 source ↗

Adam Kay British comedy writer, author, youtuber, comedian and former physician

Self-destruction.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2023 source ↗

The thought that I might die with unresolved conflicts.

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

That they don’t give a tinker’s damn about my celebrity.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 7 January 2022 source ↗

With a malicious grin that implies I know something you don’t.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 7 January 2022 source ↗

Wow! Like, the way people mess up language. I mean, it makes me crazy, y’know?

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

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