Amy Poehler: 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.

Amy Poehler

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

That I take this questionnaire too seriously and reveal my crimes and misdemeanors, or I treat this questionnaire too flippantly and bring shame to the House of Proust.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2014 source ↗

Others on this question

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Gino D'Acampo Italian-British celebrity chef and media personality

Overcooking pasta for my Italian family in Napoli – they would kill me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2022 source ↗

Tim Peake British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut

Running out of options.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 October 2022 source ↗

Keir Starmer

Failure. I hate losing, particularly at football and politics. I play five-a-side every week – middle of midfield, barking orders. Some people say it’s the taking part that counts. I am not in that camp. It’s the winning that counts.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 August 2023 source ↗

Kathy Lette Australian-British author