Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Toni Collette said elsewhere, not written here
Anyone brave enough to truly be themselves.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2025 source ↗

Others on this question

View all 406 →
Ed Harris American actor and director
My father. He has treated every person he has met with kindness and respect.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2007 source ↗
George H. W. Bush 41st President of the United States, 1989–1993
Abraham Lincoln truly inspired me. It wasn't just the freeing of the slaves, he kept the Union together. Some people even forget that today. What I think inspired me was the fact that in spite of being the president of the United States he retained a certain down-to-earth quality. He never got to be a big shot, and he cared about people.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Williamsburg, Virginia, 2 June 1995 source ↗

More from Toni Collette

View profile →

More on values & belief

Also answered this

Mel Giedroyc, Eugene Levy, Cerys Matthews, Phil Daniels, Anna Paquin, Annie Mac

Search the directory for somebody in particular.

Explore further

Report this answer