Jerry Lewis
American comedian, actor and filmmaker
No sense of humor.
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What do you value most in your friends?
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What is your greatest fear?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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How would you like to die?
Death & what remains
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’m disorganized.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2016 source ↗
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Matthew Modine
American actor
I would deplore feeling deplorable about myself.
My intense self-loathing.
Robert De Niro
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I’m certainly not going to tell it here.
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The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
I know we all have to die, but when my time comes, I’d rather it not be because a goose flew into the engine of a plane I’m on.
Close friends, spectacular food, gorgeous weather, and interesting conversation!
It’s a toss-up between mean and petty.
I’d like to die anytime after the age of 90—in my sleep!
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