Matthew Modine
American actor
Having a great fear.
What is your greatest fear?
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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How would you like to die?
Death & what remains
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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.
The loss of anything, be it a loved one or a faculty—my sight, hearing, or mind.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗
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Chiwetel Ejiofor
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It’s actually people knowing how fearful I am.
Personal: health. Globally: nuclear weapons.
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My distractibility, diminishing memory, and capacity for sustained concentration. My English master once said I had the brain of a butterfly. I feel that 40 years later, I’ve evolved into Dory from Finding Nemo.
At the right time, and like my father—utterly without fear or pain, at home, with all whom I love. It was his last lesson as a parent to me.
In my bed, a hot-water bottle on my tummy, the windows are open, reading a book that I’m already into, chocolate at hand, all with the knowledge that everyone I love and know is happy.
My mother. She’s 85 and rather than diminishing with age, she keeps surprising and growing more marvelous. She finds fun when most are jaded, wonder when most are cynical, and is curious when most are bored. She gave me life and continues to show me how to live it daily. And I know that everyone who meets her thinks the same.
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