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.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2020 source ↗
I dislike my relationship with food. I wish I didn’t love food so much.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 October 2022 source ↗
My problem with clothes. I’ve got an issue, haven’t I? I’m not a fella in a band who can turn up in his T-shirt and jeans. I’ve got the whole drama of what I’m going to wear: the hair, the makeup. All that preening and pruning that adds to the stress. I have begun to hate that perfectionist in me.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 September 2023 source ↗
Fear and all of its consequences.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 March 2022 source ↗
I’m a perfectionist; it’s boring.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2021 source ↗
I don’t think that is tough, because if you have an idea of something meaningful to communicate, you can move forward on that. You might not be successful in communicating what you want to communicate, but at least you have an idea of something that needs to be said, or something that you think should be said, and I think you go from there.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 1989 source ↗
Barack Obama has shown us how to be a politician guided by intelligence, integrity, and compassion.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2020 source ↗
Years ago, before I had my current manager, I was taken advantage of by people I’d trusted with my finances. That’s made me especially sensitive to the prospect of financial ruin. I’m constantly advising young athletes to be vigilant when it comes to whom you trust with your finances.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2020 source ↗
Being surrounded by my friends and family. Just listening to them interacting, laughing, sharing. It is the culmination of everything I could have hoped for.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 27 August 2020 source ↗
I don’t think that is tough, because if you have an idea of something meaningful to communicate, you can move forward on that. You might not be successful in communicating what you want to communicate, but at least you have an idea of something that needs to be said, or something that you think should be said, and I think you go from there.
Recorded Academy of Achievement source ↗
Loyalty. Not fawning, but a loyalty based on our shared love and history that fosters compassion and forgiveness.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 27 August 2020 source ↗
Adam Kay, Adam Lambert, Adele Parks, Adrian Dunbar, Al Franken, Alex Hassell
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