Omid Djalili
British stand-up comedian and actor
The concept of eternity.
What is your greatest fear?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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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.
Having gone through the depression of ’29, I’d hate to see the U.S. hit bottom and not come back!
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2011 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 255 →I fear nothing, except for flying.
Every actor has the same fear – ie, you’re never going to work again.
Naming my greatest fear, because then I’ll have to admit it, won’t I?
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View profile →My own doctor, Paul Rudnick.
Finally, a happy marriage, of now 39 years!
When: I finish a good scene. Where: looking back, in the navy.
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