The question
What do you fear most?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.
To experience the utter powerlessness of locked-in syndrome.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗
On my deathbed thinking I wish I would have done something that I didn’t do.
Talking too much.
Not working and not being able to continue to live this lifestyle.
Not doing the above.
Short. Fat. Jewish.
Becoming doubly incontinent.
I wanted to be a doctor, like my father.
Glenda Jackson said I was an amateur during rehearsal for The White Devil at the Old Vic. I called her a cow, but that was inadequate.
Every time I got a lucrative voiceover, I bought a picture. The most expensive was by James Gillray.
When the media, en masse, reported my imminent demise.
Hans Zimmer, Danielle Steel, Gloria Steinem, Sally Field, Serena Williams, Daphne Guinness
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