The question
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.
I talk too much.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 March 2025 source ↗
Trying to do a million things at once.
I was a ‘research assistant’ at Amnesty International for a while, which was very interesting but I don’t think I was much of an asset as I am terminally disorganised (see my desk top for a graphic demonstration).
Yielding to the wrong sort of melancholia.
The boozing. I started on rum as a child.
My beautiful silver Jaguar XKR soft-top.
My first wife – we were too young.
In an audition at the Royal Court, this man called out, “Were you trained?”
Freddie Flintoff. He played cricket in the best spirit and in his series Field of Dreams, you could see the boys hanging on his every word. He’s a special guy.
As a man who tried his best to entertain.
When my mother died in my arms, I feel I witnessed her spirit leaving her body, so let’s just wait and see.
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