Maureen O'Hara
Irish and American actress and singer
Not getting into heaven.
What is your greatest fear?
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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.
Not actualising my full potential.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 February 2023 source ↗
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View profile →A sense of home.
To trust in the process.
For being joyful.
I once had to dress up as [fast food chain] Supermac’s bunny during a St Patrick’s Day parade and shake people’s hands. Kids kept trying to take off my gloves and punching my bunny head. It was awful.
Weirdly, sometimes exhaustion keeps me awake. If I am really tired, I won’t sleep well.
Missing a cue on stage. I had to come on and move a piece of furniture with another actor and I completely forgot. I looked at the monitor and said, “Why is he standing on his own?” And somebody said, “Aren’t you meant to help him?”
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