Robert De Niro: What is your greatest fear?

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.

Recorded Robert De Niro said elsewhere, not written here

My wife going on The Real Housewives of New York City.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2013 source ↗

Others on this question

Pigeons. One got stuck in my flat once for quite a long time and it really changed how I feel about them.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 May 2026 source ↗

Romesh Ranganathan English actor and comedian

My children ending up anything like me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 August 2024 source ↗

Walking into a room filled with friends and family singing “Happy Birthday” to me and I am completely naked.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2014 source ↗

When I see older generations struggling with technology, I am afraid of it moving so quickly that I can’t use it.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗

I’m certainly not going to tell it here.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2013 source ↗

In my sleep. And I don’t think about it. It’ll be what it’ll be.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 February 2013 source ↗

Self-importance, arrogance.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2013 source ↗

I am the way I am, and I can’t change that. Why even think about it?

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 February 2013 source ↗

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