Shonda Rhimes: 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 Shonda Rhimes said elsewhere, not written here

My ability to make everything about me.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

Dolly Parton American singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman

The fact that sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2012 source ↗

David Hasselhoff American actor, singer, and television personality

Holding a grudge.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2009 source ↗

Joseph Fiennes English actor

Picking my nose.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗

Obsequiousness.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 May 2026 source ↗

Obama. He is a man of integrity and nobody seems to have integrity these days.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2017 source ↗

Warm chocolate cake, a gorgeous fire, and Idris Elba. Also, world peace.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 4 October 2017 source ↗

People who feed off of their misery. The whiners and complainers.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2017 source ↗

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