Sophia Loren: 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 Sophia Loren said elsewhere, not written here

I’m a perfectionist; it’s boring.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2021 source ↗

Others on this question

Danielle Steel Novelist

Not always standing up for myself enough.

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

My default will always be to go for the worst-case scenario and that is something that I am unlearning.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 March 2026 source ↗

Procrastination.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2023 source ↗

Comparing myself to other people.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗

To overcook that plate of fettuccine.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2021 source ↗

In the hospital when my children were born.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2021 source ↗

A plate of fettuccine ragù with my kids.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 February 2021 source ↗

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