Brooke Shields: What do you value most in your friends? — FLAPSS

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What do you value most in your friends?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.

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Brooke Shields

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Humor. Laughing with my girlfriends is one of my great joys.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 February 2025 source ↗

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Knowing when to show up and when to go home.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 2 March 2018 source ↗

Bernadette Peters

Honesty, trustworthiness, and a deep understanding of emotions.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 9 April 2025 source ↗

Jamie Lee Curtis

Seeing and being seen.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 April 2022 source ↗

John Malkovich Actor

That they’re kind, trustworthy, smart, and can hear and communicate and aren’t afraid to do so.

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

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Question Which living person do you most admire, and why? Values & belief

Gloria Steinem.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2025 source ↗

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

I would erase my fear of dying, but I suppose that would be erasing some of my human condition.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 February 2025 source ↗

Question What is your greatest fear? Identity & self

Drowning. The feeling of not being able to take a breath. I’m sure my therapist would have something to say about the deep psychological reasons for it.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2025 source ↗

Question What is your idea of perfect happiness? Identity & self

Watching my girls laugh together. It is more short-lived than I’d like, but it does happen!

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 February 2025 source ↗

Question When were you happiest? Time & hindsight

On a beach, watching my girls do cartwheels, with a Goombay Smash with a floater on top.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2025 source ↗

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