Michelle Yeoh: 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 Michelle Yeoh said elsewhere, not written here

Impatience and anger.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

The boozing. I started on rum as a child.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2026 source ↗

I’m judgmental.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 November 2025 source ↗

Gayle King Broadcaster

I’m disorganized.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2016 source ↗

Whenever I walk past an ice-cream shop, I just can’t not buy an ice-cream.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 February 2025 source ↗

Lying, unreliability.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2022 source ↗

Being with my family and kids, on an island, eating and drinking.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 21 July 2022 source ↗

Our last holiday together in Pangkor Laut.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2022 source ↗

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