Carrie Fisher: What do you value most in your friends?

The question

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.

Carrie Fisher

Actor and writer

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

A well-stocked medicine cabinet.

Vanity Fair, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2001 source ↗

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Warren Buffett Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025

The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

Recorded His own pledge letter, written on joining the Giving Pledge in 2010, The Giving Pledge, 2010 source ↗

Candice Bergen

That they be intelligent and engaged.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 6 April 2015 source ↗

Edmund Hillary Mountaineer and explorer; first ascent of Everest, 1953

I personally wouldn’t be, if I could possibly help it, involved in a serious pursuit in which there weren’t a few people who could laugh a bit about it. Because I can remember many occasions — maybe we’ve been stuck in a tent or we’re up on the side of a mountain, this heavy snow, avalanches all around us, and we can’t get up and we can’t get down, but we just sat in the tent and reminisced about occasions and days gone by and laughed about old jokes and all the rest of it. Then you really have a very good time, even though you’re sort of poised there between disaster both up and down. People who can make you laugh under those circumstances are very valuable indeed in an expedition.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗

Jean Smart