Every actor has the same fear – ie, you’re never going to work again.
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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.
Being murdered – I listen to too many true-crime podcasts.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 285 →There’s no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears. Though I do have that dream that I walk out onto the stage nude. Does that count?
David Lynch
Film director, screenwriter and painter
I’ve had this fear…the fear of being restricted—in every way.
That I can’t write.
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View profile →Bullying, flakiness, rudeness, lack of humility, being patronising and ungenerous.
Losing my memory and not being able to work.
I like to think that my friends, my auntie and my mum are up there having a big party and that I could join them.
Not getting into drama school when I was 17. In those days, the first thing people said was, “Where did you train?”
That I am still creative.
Worry – I am a terrible worrier.
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