Daryl McCormack
Irish actor
Oversharing. I long to be intimately connected to people and sometimes, among strangers, I don’t read the room.
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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.
Absentmindedness.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2017 source ↗
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James Norton
English actor
I have a habit of sabotaging the moment in pursuit of perfection.
I can go for weeks without opening the mail. I can look at a letter that has just dropped through the letterbox, wonder what it is and then just shred it.
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View profile →Talking too much.
Getting hired. With the possible exception of my daughters’ births and my wedding day, the happiest moments of my life were when someone offered me a job.
Failure to be on time.
When I finished writing a book.
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