Jane Fonda: 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 Jane Fonda said elsewhere, not written here

The tendency to withdraw into myself.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2009 source ↗

Others on this question

I don’t deplore anything about myself, but I am a perfectionist.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 April 2023 source ↗

Sitting on the fence – I will do anything to avoid confrontation.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗

Procrastination.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2023 source ↗

Courtney Pine British jazz musician

I am not studious enough. I get easily distracted.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 September 2022 source ↗

That we won’t act fast enough to save the planet.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2009 source ↗

My inability to have a long-term intimate relationship.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 20 October 2009 source ↗

Being totally present and at peace in the moment—and knowing that my children and grandchildren are all right.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 May 2009 source ↗

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