Sophia Loren: Which trait in yourself do you like least?

The question

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Sophia Loren

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I’m a perfectionist; it’s boring.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2021 source ↗

Others on this question

Forgetting. Or, worse yet, not recognizing who my real friends are.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2010 source ↗

I’m embarrassed when I get people’s names wrong.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 January 2026 source ↗

Courtney Pine British jazz musician

I am not studious enough. I get easily distracted.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 September 2022 source ↗

Willem Dafoe Actor

Punctuality (outside of work, of course).

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2014 source ↗

A plate of fettuccine ragù with my kids.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 February 2021 source ↗

In the hospital when my children were born.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2021 source ↗

To overcook that plate of fettuccine.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2021 source ↗

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