David Hasselhoff
American actor, singer, and television personality
Not working and not being able to continue to live this lifestyle.
What is your greatest fear?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Living a life of regret because of fear.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2016 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 256 →COVID-19 and how it’s affecting everyone. Also, I’m afraid of not knowing when I’ll be able to perform in front of people again and enjoy an audience.
Not doing the above.
I am spooked by water underground, water in drains and water in machinery. I am very frightened of mill wheels.
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My love of sugar.
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Any day spent laughing with friends or family.
If I could change one thing about myself, it would be to change the idea that I should change something about myself.
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