Hugh Grant
Actor
The cat bowls. With the old cat food dried on like cement.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2024 source ↗
What is your greatest fear?
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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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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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When were you happiest?
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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.
To be abandoned.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗
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Tom Lubbock
Art critic
I think that loss of speech, and of understanding of speech, and of understanding of writing, and of coherent writing – these losses will amount to the loss of my mind. I know what this feels like and it has no insides, no internal echo. Mind means talking to oneself. There wouldn't be any secret mind surviving in me.
Recorded The Observer, from the journals he kept between 2008 and 2010, 7 November 2010 source ↗
COVID-19 and how it’s affecting everyone. Also, I’m afraid of not knowing when I’ll be able to perform in front of people again and enjoy an audience.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2020 source ↗
Edward Enninful
Ghanaian-born English editor and stylist
When I get to the restaurant and don’t see any hot sauce on the table.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 December 2022 source ↗
More from Luise Rainer
View profile →Mandela. Also, artists and painters. I admire people who are creative.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗
First of all, to be in love. The second way of being very happy is to be able to get the best out of yourself, whatever it is.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 March 2010 source ↗
My inferiority complex.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗
To be dishonest. Sometimes people have to be dishonest in order not to hurt, but if someone is basically dishonest, that is a different matter.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗
In the mountains, climbing into beautiful places—anything that has to do with nature. I feel best in nature or near nature. And I was most happy, of course, when I was with my husband and we were in beautiful landscapes.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗
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