Rita Moreno
Actor, singer and dancer
The thought that I might die with unresolved conflicts.
What is your greatest fear?
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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.
There’s no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears. Though I do have that dream that I walk out onto the stage nude. Does that count?
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2015 source ↗
Others on this question
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Living a life of regret because of fear.
Johnny Flynn
British actor and musician
I’ve got vertigo, so anything to do with heights.
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View profile →After the war, when I was about nine, we were held up in our home. The robbers grabbed my father and had a gun at his throat. It was terrifying. My mother got a wad of money and gave it to the people, and they ran away.
Impatience and temper. Enough already!
I went overboard on the money I invested in the production of Allegiance. It did not return, but it was fulfilling that I was able to tell a story that’s dear.
One great big artistic challenge.
When Brad and I got married. We had to struggle for it. It involved a nationwide speaking tour, lobbying Congress and campaigning intensely. We were the first couple to get our marriage licence in West Hollywood.
Pope Francis, who left the Vatican to wash the feet of non-believers.
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