David Hyde Pierce: If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?

The question

If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

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

David Hyde Pierce

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I would be a better, faster, and more faithful writer of letters and e-mails, and returner of phone calls.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 April 2017 source ↗

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Martin Scorsese

First of all, I’d like to stop complaining—I’m beginning to annoy myself. I would like to learn to read faster, however. Again, the rest I’ve learned to live with.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 February 2010 source ↗

Mellody Hobson Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments

silver bullet is probably incentives. I think that if corporate America really said, "you're not going to get your full bonus if you don't have a diverse team working for you," I think we'd see some changes, really, really fast.

Recorded Sharon Epperson, Inclusion in Action: CNBC Opportunity Forum, 18 March 2021 source ↗

Steve Buscemi