Sophia Loren: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

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.

Recorded Sophia Loren 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

Procrastination.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2011 source ↗

Meghan Trainor American singer-songwriter

My self-criticism.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2024 source ↗

Oh, I have a long list. You should ask me what I like about myself—that list is much shorter.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2025 source ↗

Believing in, even admiring, people who refuse to believe in me, and not believing people who do.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2023 source ↗

To overcook that plate of fettuccine.

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

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