Lauren Bacall: 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.

Lauren Bacall

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Not waking up in the morning.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2004 source ↗

Others on this question

That I’ll never work again.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2012 source ↗

Heights, and not getting along with people.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 September 2023 source ↗

Bruce Dickinson English heavy metal singer

Well, I’m not too happy about snakes. I also hate sand. It’s very inconvenient.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2024 source ↗

Couples who have to be sat side by side at L.A. dinner parties. What is that all about?!

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2020 source ↗

Waking up in the morning.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2004 source ↗

No one I can think of offhand.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2004 source ↗

Search the directory for somebody in particular.