Julian Clary
English actor, comedian, novelist and presenter
Running out of Molecule cologne.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2022 source ↗
What is your greatest fear?
Question
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
Question
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
Question
What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
Question
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
Question
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
Question
When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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 die worrying.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
Others on this question
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Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2017 source ↗
Not doing the above.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2022 source ↗
Robert De Niro
Actor
My wife going on The Real Housewives of New York City.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2013 source ↗
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View profile →Standing up while eating.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 April 2017 source ↗
They take my calls.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 April 2017 source ↗
The sewing-machine repairman at the corner of 107th and Broadway.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
Their goddamned fucking honesty.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto: 8:31 A.M., July 1, 1981; 8:29 A.M., May 4, 1983.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
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