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.
My belief that saying it makes it happen.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2009 source ↗
It was desperate because of certain things, ingredients like my father being an alcoholic, my mother having too many babies in too short a time, no work available in Ireland, and even when my father did get a job he drank the wages. Then there was the harsh kind of schooling we had with school masters who ruled with a stick and then because of the overwhelming presence of the church, which imbued us with fear all the time. So it was fear, dampness, poverty, alcoholism, fear of the church, fear of the school masters, fear in general.
As a participant in the movement, as I was sitting in, I came to that point where I lost all sense of fear.
The loss of anything, be it a loved one or a faculty—my sight, hearing, or mind.
I am petrified of bikini waxing. I had a very bad experience in 1978.
The moment I knew I would spend my life with Lisa.
The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who is 100 years old and still working.
When the coffee kicks in early in the morning and I’m on the couch with my dogs, reading the paper.
David Hasselhoff, Jerry Lewis, Hans Zimmer, Danielle Steel, Gloria Steinem, Sally Field
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