Jane Fonda: What do you fear most?

The question

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.

Jane Fonda

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

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

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

Others on this question

Neil Patrick Harris Actor

That it all goes away and never comes back.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2015 source ↗

Getting to the end and thinking that I haven’t laughed enough.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 January 2026 source ↗

Having no way of earning money.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗

Talking too much.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2017 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 ↗

The tendency to withdraw into myself.

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 ↗

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