Good TV, good delivery, perfect AC. Literally doing nothing.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Question
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
Question
What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
Question
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
Question
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
Question
When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
Question
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Cuddling in bed on a Sunday morning with the man I love. Also, applause and standing ovations.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2018 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 158 →
Yogi Berra
Baseball catcher and manager; ten-time World Series winner with the New York Yankees
To relax without being bothered.
Pizza and wine after performing for a great Saturday-night crowd on Broadway.
Floating in a river full of fat trout.
More from Laverne Cox
View profile →Thinking that I am not enough or not beautiful the way I am. That thinking is super-dangerous.
Being homeless.
Mean-spiritedness and the inability to set and respect boundaries.
Thinking that I am less-than. That thinking is cunning, baffling, and insidious, and I must guard against it every hour of every day.
At the SAG awards in 2016. I remember going into that night saying to myself, “I might not be here again; let me be fully in the moment.” The cast of Orange Is the New Black won the acting-ensemble award for the second year in a row, and I was there with a man I truly loved. That night was everything I had always dreamed about.
Leontyne Price gives me life. She broke racial barriers with inimitable poise, grace, and excellence, as well as unbelievable focus and vision.
More on identity & self
- What is your greatest fear? 256 answers
- Which trait do you most dislike in yourself? 243 answers
- What did you want to be when you were growing up? 195 answers
- What most recently made you cry? 193 answers
- How would you describe yourself in three words? 112 answers
- What are you most proud of? 103 answers
Also answered this
Diane Keaton, Ina Garten, Hugh Jackman, Daniel Radcliffe, Donatella Versace, Mariska Hargitay
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All identity & self questions
- The The Proust Questionnaire questionnaire — 5 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject