Those abduction situations where you’re packed in a bunker for 30 years.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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When were you happiest?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
Being homeless.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2018 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 255 →I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2015 source ↗
Bruce Dickinson
English heavy metal singer
Well, I’m not too happy about snakes. I also hate sand. It’s very inconvenient.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2024 source ↗
Ironically, it’s talking to hundreds of people in a room.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2023 source ↗
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View profile →Mean-spiritedness and the inability to set and respect boundaries.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2018 source ↗
Thinking that I am not enough or not beautiful the way I am. That thinking is super-dangerous.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2018 source ↗
Leontyne Price gives me life. She broke racial barriers with inimitable poise, grace, and excellence, as well as unbelievable focus and vision.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2018 source ↗
Cuddling in bed on a Sunday morning with the man I love. Also, applause and standing ovations.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2018 source ↗
At the SAG awards in 2016. I remember going into that night saying to myself, “I might not be here again; let me be fully in the moment.” The cast of Orange Is the New Black won the acting-ensemble award for the second year in a row, and I was there with a man I truly loved. That night was everything I had always dreamed about.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2018 source ↗
Thinking that I am less-than. That thinking is cunning, baffling, and insidious, and I must guard against it every hour of every day.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2018 source ↗
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