I become very anxious if I think I’ve hurt someone.
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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.
Falling onstage…or anywhere.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2024 source ↗
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View all 256 →I’ve a phobia of statues. It does go back to childhood. My parents brought me to look at a French church late at night. Since then I can’t deal with them.
Dying alone and in pain.
As an Italian, tinned spaghetti. As a child, I was once served it at someone’s house. It was quite frightening.
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A calm and peaceful mind, landing a joke, being the name right after “And the winner is…”
Filming Penny Dreadful for five months in the Republic of Ireland, sublime land of faeries and spontaneous song.
Laughter first and foremost, acceptance, and love.
My Sicilian impulsiveness.
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