The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Clothes moths (and the imminent threat of world war three).
The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 August 2026 source ↗
A world where greed rules.
Being unprepared.
I’ve always been frightened of the dark. I sometimes wonder whether it stems from being away filming from the age of five. I can remember being devastatingly homesick and having a little nightlight I used to look at to reassure myself things were all right.
Both my grandmother and my mother got dementia. My grandmother has passed away. My mother is in a home. Dementia is my biggest fear because it robs you of the very thing that makes life special.
When they ruin my story because they think theirs is better, so butt in before I’ve finished mine.
So far, getting older has made almost everything better.
When I ruin someone else’s story because I think mine is better, so butt in before they’ve finished theirs.
Hungry, hard-working, cats.
The early days of motherhood. We lived in a sweet little bungalow in LA that had a pool. We threw lots of parties. We had a cute dog and a mad Siamese. Trump had never been president, we’d never heard of coronavirus, Claire’s Accessories was still going strong. Good times.
My Siamese cat, which I had freeze-dried after she died. I really think their future partners will like it.
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