OD
The concept of eternity.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗
The question
What do you fear most?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.
Others on this question
View all 256 →
Rita Moreno
Actor, singer and dancer
The thought that I might die with unresolved conflicts.
Incapacitation.
Being run over by a cyclist on a pavement or pedestrian crossing, because it’s nearly happened too frequently.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
More from Omid Djalili
View profile →The concept of New Labour.
I had spinal meningitis when I was 13.
Jumping on the seats of a deserted carriage on a London-bound train from Canterbury in 1989.
Overeating when stressed.
As a well-balanced and functioning thin man.
I'd edit out all the wrong people I surrounded myself with socially and professionally whom I thought I had to tolerate.
More on identity & self
- Which trait in yourself do you like least? 239 answers
- As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself? 197 answers
- What most recently moved you to tears? 192 answers
- What does happiness look like for you when life is going well? 158 answers
- How would you sum yourself up in three words? 114 answers
- What fills you with the most pride? 103 answers
Also answered this
Rosie Jones, Joseph Fiennes, Rita Wilson, Helen George, Dolly Parton, Patrick Stewart
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