Stanley Tucci: What do you fear most?

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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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Stanley Tucci

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Losing one of my children, as there is no greater loss.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗

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Aretha Franklin

My lips are sealed.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2003 source ↗

Roger Ebert Film critic

Many readers have informed me that it is a tragic and dreary business to go into death without faith. I don’t feel that way. “Faith” is neutral. All depends on what is believed in. I have no desire to live forever. The concept frightens me. I am 69, have had cancer, will die sooner than most of those reading this. That is in the nature of things.

Recorded Excerpt from Life Itself: A Memoir, published by Salon, 15 September 2011 source ↗

Daryl McCormack Irish actor

Not actualising my full potential.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 February 2023 source ↗

Edward Enninful Ghanaian-born English editor and stylist

When I get to the restaurant and don’t see any hot sauce on the table.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 December 2022 source ↗

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Question What disappointment has stayed with you longest? Failure & regret

I am always disappointed in myself. I always feel that I haven’t achieved enough, or been as good a parent as I could be.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2016 source ↗

Question What does happiness look like for you when life is going well? Identity & self

A meal alfresco with people I love.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 15 October 2024 source ↗

Question What most recently moved you to tears? Identity & self

I cried recently, thinking about my late wife.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2016 source ↗

Question Who deserves an apology from you, and for what? Failure & regret

My late wife – she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn’t be in that room, because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn’t be able to take care of the kids after.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2016 source ↗

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

Every time one of my kids was born and I knew that they were healthy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2016 source ↗

Question What trait do you most dislike in other people? Values & belief

Cruelty. I don’t see the point.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗

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