Rita Moreno: What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Originally asked

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

A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.

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

Recorded Rita Moreno said elsewhere, not written here

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

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

Others on this question

Selfishness. People who block junctions in their car.

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

Laziness, lack of empathy, lack of humour.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 December 2025 source ↗

Ardal O'Hanlon Irish comedian and actor

Lack of self-doubt.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 June 2022 source ↗

Erin O'Connor English model

Unnecessary judgment.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2008 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 ↗

Short-term memory.

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

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