Robert De Niro: 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 De Niro said elsewhere, not written here

I’m certainly not going to tell it here.

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

Others on this question

Sometimes I follow my instincts more than my reason.

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

Self-doubt and a reoccurring fear that people would prefer the other Alfred Molina.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2024 source ↗

My ability to stress myself out.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2017 source ↗

I am a bit of a procrastinator.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗

My wife going on The Real Housewives of New York City.

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

In my sleep. And I don’t think about it. It’ll be what it’ll be.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 February 2013 source ↗

I am the way I am, and I can’t change that. Why even think about it?

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 February 2013 source ↗

Self-importance, arrogance.

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

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