Joseph Fiennes
English actor
That fear becomes too great.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗
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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.
Being found out.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2015 source ↗
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View all 255 →Of choking on some food and having no one nearby to do the Heimlich maneuver.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2013 source ↗
When I see older generations struggling with technology, I am afraid of it moving so quickly that I can’t use it.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗
Heights, and not getting along with people.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 September 2023 source ↗
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View profile →Over two weeks, in a pleasant fug of palliative morphine if necessary. Just time to say a cheerful good-bye to everyone.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2015 source ↗
My laziness. Not in work-related matters, but social laziness. Thank-you letters, organization, that sort of thing.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2015 source ↗
Lying in one of two twin hammocks on an English lawn in June. A glass of something cool and vinous is balanced on my tummy. A speaker hanging above the tree plays Glenn Gould. A Wodehouse novel is spread-eagled on my chest. I will pick it up in a moment. Oh, the other hammock is occupied by my beloved husband.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2015 source ↗
Probably Daniel Barenboim. His blend of insane talent, intellect, and profound humanitarianism is one that comes along very, very rarely. I would put Martina Navratilova and Stephen Sondheim in a tie for second.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2015 source ↗
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