From a heart attack at the Kodak Theatre when they announce I won best actor for Terminator 3.
How would you like to die?
Question
What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
Question
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed final question in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire, repeated verbatim across respondent pages.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Coming offstage after a five-minute standing ovation, falling into the arms of my lover, and having the doctor look at me and say, “This is impossible! She looks much too young to go!”
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 4 September 2014 source ↗
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Simon Boas
Aid worker; executive director of Jersey Overseas Aid
My pain is under control and I'm terribly happy - it sounds weird to say, but I'm as happy as I've ever been in my life. I used to think I'd rather be hit by the proverbial bus, but having a couple of months knowing this is coming has really helped me both do the boring 'death-min', but also get my thoughts and prepare myself, and feel so accepting of what's to come. It's been such a great bonus, actually.
Sally Field
Actor
When I’m extremely old during a huge family celebration where everyone is playing games and giving pre-written toasts … to me.
Lily Tomlin
Comedian and actor
In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”
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View profile →Being poor—or, worse, having Kelsey Grammer fight with Teddy Kennedy over who is to drive me home.
None. Unfortunately, we are in an age of antiheroes.
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