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.
Still nuclear annihilation.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2015 source ↗
My greatest fear is going out onstage and having the audience just stare at me.
I’m a very fearless person.
I never want to go back; I fought so much through my life, that I have to keep going forward.
Being on a plane that is about to crash.
Noam Chomsky, Barack Obama.
I don’t remember the womb, so … my first taste of ice cream? First night in a girl’s bed: happy.
Happiness is going to come and go, but to have a chance at intermittent happiness you need to be free from fear. In our culture, in our day, we can lose sight of what a rare gift that is: to live free from fear
Rosie Jones, Christine Baranski, Helen Skelton, Penny Lancaster, Paul Merson, Jamie Lee Curtis
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