Bruno Tonioli
Italian choreographer
Meanness and lying.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Question
What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
Question
What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
Question
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
Question
What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
Question
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
Question
How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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.
Unfriendliness.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 197 →
David Hockney
Painter, draughtsman, printmaker and photographer
That they don’t give way quickly.
I’m irritated by critics and academics who dismiss poetry that is popular, comprehensible or humorous.
Malala Yousafzai
Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace
I hate it when my little brothers don't close their mouths when they're eating.
More from Bryn Terfel
View profile →I’ve been a strong advocate that all my five children should be great swimmers, so you can deduce what my fear is.
I cleaned the toilets at the local pub every Saturday morning.
Thinking that singing makes me fit.
“You’re a wonderful musician but a terrible friend.” It was Daniel Barenboim, the famous conductor, because I didn’t have time in the calendar to work with him.
I loved my 1 minute 40 seconds singing at the coronation of King Charles. I was the most nervous I’ve been.
In 2006, I went fishing for red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. On the way back, one of the engines caught fire and then we had one engine for 70 miles. Slowly but surely, we got to Baton Rouge in the darkness but then got very close to a very large passing ship – they didn’t see us and we didn’t see them.
More on values & belief
- Which living person do you most admire, and why? 406 answers
- What is something everyone in your world agrees about that you think is wrong? 79 answers
- What are you unwilling to optimise? 30 answers
- What have you come to understand about what it means to be human? 14 answers
- What is the most overrated virtue? 10 answers
- What do you need to believe in order to get through the day? 9 answers
Also answered this
John Mellencamp, Charlotte Church, Rita Moreno, Bonnie Raitt, Fran Healy, Meghan Trainor
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All values & belief questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject