Alfre Woodard: What trait do you most dislike in other people?

The question

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.

Alfre Woodard

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Inefficiency. Whiners.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

Lolita Chakrabarti British actress and writer

Lack of empathy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 May 2022 source ↗

Lack of empathy.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2025 source ↗

Indecision and wishy-washiness.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2009 source ↗

Serially telling endless boring jokes and sexism and racism and homophobia (they often go together).

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2010 source ↗

My dear friend Eve Plotkin, supervising attorney at the N.Y. Legal Aid Society, head of the Family Law Unit for 25 years.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2022 source ↗

Under sail somewhere with my children, Mavis and Duncan, and my husband, Roderick, with no agenda.

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

Search the directory for somebody in particular.