Laverne Cox: If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?

The question

If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

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

Laverne Cox

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Thinking that I am not enough or not beautiful the way I am. That thinking is super-dangerous.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

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Robert De Niro Actor

I am the way I am, and I can’t change that. Why even think about it?

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 February 2013 source ↗

Carol Burnett

My tendency to worry about the future if there’s nothing you can do about it.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 17 June 2020 source ↗

Isaac Mizrahi

I would care less about what people thought of me.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 April 2022 source ↗

Martin Scorsese

First of all, I’d like to stop complaining—I’m beginning to annoy myself. I would like to learn to read faster, however. Again, the rest I’ve learned to live with.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 February 2010 source ↗

More from Laverne Cox

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Question What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? Time & hindsight

At the SAG awards in 2016. I remember going into that night saying to myself, “I might not be here again; let me be fully in the moment.” The cast of Orange Is the New Black won the acting-ensemble award for the second year in a row, and I was there with a man I truly loved. That night was everything I had always dreamed about.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2018 source ↗