Arnold Schwarzenegger: Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Originally asked

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

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

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

Recorded Arnold Schwarzenegger said elsewhere, not written here

My mother-in-law, Eunice Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics, and my father-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who founded Job Corps and was the first director of the Peace Corps.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2003 source ↗

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Elisabeth Moss American actor

This is kind of cheesy, but my mum.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 March 2012 source ↗

Samuel West British actor, theatre director, and narrator

Greta Thunberg. For setting an example and fighting hatred with humour.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 October 2020 source ↗

Sharon Stone

I’m astounded by the young activists, ecologists, poets, movement leaders, peaceful marchers, change makers everywhere. It’s like watching a garden bloom.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2021 source ↗

Sheryl Crow American singer-songwriter

My mother, because now I have two sons and I have help around me – including my family – I can't imagine having four little ones under the age of nine, as she did.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 September 2010 source ↗