Gina Lollobrigida: What do you fear most?

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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.

Gina Lollobrigida

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I honestly don’t have a particular fear. We must live life without limits, and fear can become a limit.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2013 source ↗

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Daphne Guinness British socialite

Aggression without provocation or consequences.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2024 source ↗

Roger Ebert Film critic

Many readers have informed me that it is a tragic and dreary business to go into death without faith. I don’t feel that way. “Faith” is neutral. All depends on what is believed in. I have no desire to live forever. The concept frightens me. I am 69, have had cancer, will die sooner than most of those reading this. That is in the nature of things.

Recorded Excerpt from Life Itself: A Memoir, published by Salon, 15 September 2011 source ↗

Nigel Havers

Every actor has the same fear – ie, you’re never going to work again.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2026 source ↗

Edward Enninful Ghanaian-born English editor and stylist

When I get to the restaurant and don’t see any hot sauce on the table.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 December 2022 source ↗

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Question If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be? Identity & self

I would like to be less impulsive.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 27 June 2013 source ↗

Question What trait do you most dislike in other people? Values & belief

I don’t like false or opportunistic people.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2013 source ↗

Question Which quality in your friends matters most to you? Relationships

The ability to be themselves rather than hiding behind a mask.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2013 source ↗

Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

I’m defined as a very strong woman. I don’t identify myself with a specific figure, but I do greatly admire people who manage to persevere with humility through great difficulties.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2013 source ↗

Question What does happiness look like for you when life is going well? Identity & self

Happiness is a journey that depends solely on ourselves. We should be grateful to life because so much that it has in store for us will be marvelous and we have the good fortune to live it.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2013 source ↗

Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

Sometimes I follow my instincts more than my reason.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2013 source ↗

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