Don Rickles: What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Don Rickles said elsewhere, not written here

Trying too hard to be funny.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

Kazuo Ishiguro Novelist and screenwriter; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2017

The urge to be unpleasant to waitstaff in restaurants.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2023 source ↗

Not having the ability to say sorry when they’re wrong.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 July 2026 source ↗

Erin O'Connor English model

Unnecessary judgment.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2008 source ↗

Too many times I had people try and make decisions for me. The assumption that I needed that was a big mistake!

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 April 2023 source ↗

Perfect happiness is having a wife who loves you and doesn’t ask for too much jewelry.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2003 source ↗

Well, Frank Sinatra’s gone, so the rest have to stand in line.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗

Having no patience.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗

My greatest fear is going out onstage and having the audience just stare at me.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗

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