Waking up after a sleepover at John Waters’s house and finding my sleeping bag isn’t zipped up the same way as when I passed out. Or “President Palin.”
What is your greatest fear?
Question
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
Question
When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
Question
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
Question
What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
Question
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
Question
What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
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.
That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2019 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 255 →
Johnny Flynn
British actor and musician
I’ve got vertigo, so anything to do with heights.
Living a life of regret because of fear.
I’m from Birmingham. I’m not afraid of things. Things are afraid of me.
More from Allison Janney
View profile →Cooking out with my closest friends and laughing until we are crying.
This year's a pretty good year.
I wish I always had the right word in the right moment at the right time and not two hours later in my car going home.
Thank you notes I haven't written.
My niece, Petra Janney, who got her pilot’s license to rescue animals from rural kill shelters and have them placed with different pet adoption agencies.
Those who are both loyal and can cook.
More on identity & self
- Which trait do you most dislike in yourself? 243 answers
- What most recently made you cry? 193 answers
- What did you want to be when you were growing up? 191 answers
- What is your idea of perfect happiness? 158 answers
- How would you describe yourself in three words? 110 answers
- What are you most proud of? 99 answers
Also answered this · A–Z
Ai Weiwei, Alan Arkin, Alfred Molina, Alison Steadman, Ally McCoist, Amy Poehler
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All identity & self questions
- The The Proust Questionnaire questionnaire — 5 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject