Amy Poehler: What do you fear most?

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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 ↗

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Kevin Bacon

Food in a sink drain.

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

Kerry Godliman

Losing my mind.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗

Rebecca Lucy Taylor

Having no way of earning money.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗

Aretha Franklin

My lips are sealed.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2003 source ↗

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Question Which quality in your friends matters most to you? Relationships

A love of laughter and a shared belief that life is a dream.

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Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

Beyoncé/Beyoncé’s hair person.

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

Question What does happiness look like for you when life is going well? Identity & self

A good nap and a full house.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 November 2014 source ↗

Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

Stealing from the elderly and then acting real cocky about it.

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

Question What trait do you most dislike in other people? Values & belief

People who can’t read my mind.

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

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