Jane Fonda: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

Originally asked

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

The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.

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

Recorded Jane Fonda said elsewhere, not written here

The tendency to withdraw into myself.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2009 source ↗

Others on this question

Courtney Pine British jazz musician

I am not studious enough. I get easily distracted.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 September 2022 source ↗

Oversensitivity.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2023 source ↗

An “elastic” sense of time (fancy way of saying I am late a lot).

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗

My competitive side, the one that keeps score.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2013 source ↗

Being totally present and at peace in the moment—and knowing that my children and grandchildren are all right.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 May 2009 source ↗

That we won’t act fast enough to save the planet.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2009 source ↗

My inability to have a long-term intimate relationship.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 20 October 2009 source ↗

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