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It’s actually people knowing how fearful I am.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2024 source ↗
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.
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Willem Dafoe
Actor
A crippling accident.
Helena Bonham Carter
Actor
The loss of anything, be it a loved one or a faculty—my sight, hearing, or mind.
Dying, because I am so happy now.
Patrick Stewart
Actor
That I would lose her.
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Still to come, I think.
As an optimist.
Being torn to shreds by a very elderly woman for driving badly on the Isle of Man, maybe 15 years ago. She stopped in the middle of the road and really let me have it.
To do the very best you can and then let it go.
As vital as breathing.
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