The question
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.
English actor, comedian, broadcaster and singer
I have a horrible capacity to be unctuous to people I want to impress.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 November 2010 source ↗
I’m embarrassed when I get people’s names wrong.
My phobias. I’m down to two, so I take that as a positive sign.
Well, first of all I’d like to change the word “deplore” to “dislike.” I guess that I’m almost a hermit; I don’t enjoy going out that much, and so I tend to take my happiness from the joys of my home and my husband.
I can be an overthinker and a vicious self-critic.
I am going a bit deaf and I am hoping that technology is going to come on leaps and bounds and that one day I will hear better.
Three children aged three, one and 0.
I’d have Nunc Dimittis in G, followed by Gute Nacht and Be Thou My Vision.
Entirely comfortable and warm – the edge of it can be white heat, but the best kind is room temperature.
The TV producer Jimmy Mulville has been an incredible mentor.
Bad manners, which extends from people dropping litter to people trawling the hell out of the oceans.
Jerry Lewis, David Hasselhoff, Sally Field, James Norton, Robert Glenister, Daryl McCormack
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