John Malkovich
American actor
That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
What is your greatest fear?
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What is the worst job you have done?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That we will drown in plastic waste.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2009 source ↗
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Ardal O'Hanlon
Irish comedian and actor
People laughing at me, which is terrible for someone who makes a living out of making people laugh.
John Simm
English musician and actor
Outliving my kids – and rats.
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