Guy Pearce: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Guy Pearce said elsewhere, not written here

My fear of confrontation.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗

Others on this question

Jane Asher English actress and author

Minding not being liked.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2023 source ↗

Melissa Etheridge Singer, songwriter and guitarist

Deplore is a heavy word. I don’t deplore it but I constantly feel the pull of my old Midwestern ways of eating. Boy, can I put some pancakes away.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2023 source ↗

Gayle King Broadcaster

I’m disorganized.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2016 source ↗

Impatience and anger.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2022 source ↗

I felt like I messed up my marriage. I don’t feel that way any more, but at the time I was devastated.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗

A guitar – a 1959 Gibson 335.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗

If I’ve spent money that I shouldn’t have or treated someone badly.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗

I wish I could go back and not be the anxious child that I was. I spent the first 25 years of my life just trying to survive human interaction.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗

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