Omid Djalili: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

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 Omid Djalili said elsewhere, not written here

Overeating when stressed.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗

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Judith Light

I dislike my impatience.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

Barack Obama 44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008

Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. I had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing.

Recorded Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, The White House (Obama administration archive), 19 May 2013 source ↗

Alice Waters Chef, restaurateur and food activist

The inclination to pretend I read a friend’s book when maybe I didn’t completely finish.

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

Dawn O’Porter

When I ruin someone else’s story because I think mine is better, so butt in before they’ve finished theirs.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 August 2026 source ↗