Cybill Shepherd
American actress and former model
Dying in a plane crash and having somebody else get top billing.
What is your greatest fear?
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
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.
That I’ll never work again.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2012 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 256 →Failure. I hate losing, particularly at football and politics. I play five-a-side every week – middle of midfield, barking orders. Some people say it’s the taking part that counts. I am not in that camp. It’s the winning that counts.
Alison Steadman
British actress
That we will drown in plastic waste.
Carrie Fisher
Actor and writer
A bad death . . . fast or slow.
More from Mary Tyler Moore
View profile →I think when we were doing The Mary Tyler Moore Show. That was the first time that I was able to, on a regular basis, be funny.
Well, first of all I’d like to change the word “deplore” to “dislike.” I guess that I’m almost a hermit; I don’t enjoy going out that much, and so I tend to take my happiness from the joys of my home and my husband.
Getting to the point in life where I can accept that the truth is there is no perfect happiness.
Their responsibility to the friendship.
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