Elaine May: Which quality in your friends matters most to you?

The question

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Elaine May

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Availability. Just kidding. Character.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 March 2009 source ↗

Others on this question

Hans Zimmer Film composer

They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 January 2019 source ↗

Eugene Levy Actor and writer

Knowing they are there for you.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 November 2019 source ↗

Ina Garten Cookery writer and shop owner

That they want to be with me.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 20 September 2016 source ↗

Elmore Leonard Novelist and screenwriter

That they get it.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 December 2012 source ↗

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