Robert De Niro
Actor
My wife going on The Real Housewives of New York City.
What is your greatest fear?
Question
What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
Question
Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
Question
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
Question
How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
Question
What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
Question
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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.
Losing my mind and not knowing it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗
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Ardal O'Hanlon
Irish comedian and actor
People laughing at me, which is terrible for someone who makes a living out of making people laugh.
Failure, being caught out, making an idiot of myself.
Hans Zimmer
Film composer
A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
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It's bad taste to brag about money.
A 'no' is free.
Just thinking about unsafe sex.
As a funny guy who surprised you once in a while.
That I live a life with no contact with arseholes.
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