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.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2021 source ↗
Many readers have informed me that it is a tragic and dreary business to go into death without faith. I don’t feel that way. “Faith” is neutral. All depends on what is believed in. I have no desire to live forever. The concept frightens me. I am 69, have had cancer, will die sooner than most of those reading this. That is in the nature of things.
Being on my deathbed and realising I’d forgotten to treat each day as the miracle that it is.
I don’t even voice them. Perhaps the books are my outlet here.
My greatest fear is going out onstage and having the audience just stare at me.
Waking up in the morning is as perfect as anything gets.
The rare moment I don’t believe in myself enough.
Dishonesty and insincerity.
Ai Weiwei, Alan Arkin, Alfred Molina, Alison Steadman, Allison Janney, Ally McCoist
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