The question
What do you value most in your friends?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
English actor, comedian, broadcaster and singer
Make friends and do all you can to keep them. And try to be useful.
Rob McGibbon, The Definite Article, Rob McGibbon, 29 December 2012 source ↗
Kindness and laughter. If someone makes me laugh, I’m halfway in love.
A willingness to come uptown.
It’s hard to narrow it down, because I want them to have a bit of everything—humor, kindness, integrity, intelligence, tolerance (they need lots of that). But if I had to choose just one it would probably be loyalty.
That they’re kind, trustworthy, smart, and can hear and communicate and aren’t afraid to do so.
As a good father and a decent person who was good company – not a bore!
The TV producer Jimmy Mulville has been an incredible mentor.
Bad manners, which extends from people dropping litter to people trawling the hell out of the oceans.
Three children aged three, one and 0.
Be happy and enthusiastic.
Now. Although I am on tour and I will be deliriously happy when that finishes, because I'll be back home.
Sally Field, Julie Taymor, Lily Tomlin, Rita Moreno, Eugene Levy, John Malkovich
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