Robert Evans: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

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.

Recorded Robert Evans said elsewhere, not written here

Flirting with danger.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2013 source ↗

Others on this question

Maya Jama British television and radio presenter

I can be properly stubborn sometimes – but that’s me being a classic Leo.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 June 2023 source ↗

Patience is not my forte.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 December 2024 source ↗

Carl Barât English musician

Fear and all of its consequences.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 March 2022 source ↗

Self-flagellation.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 July 2025 source ↗

Being there through thin and thin. That’s friendship treasured.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 December 2013 source ↗

Anyone who can laugh at themselves.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2013 source ↗

False humility.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2013 source ↗

At the altar all seven times.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2013 source ↗

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