The question
What do you fear most?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.
I’m quite scared of bats. I’m just seeing rats with wings – no, thanks.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 May 2025 source ↗
I fear nothing, except for flying.
Aggression without provocation or consequences.
Having gone through the depression of ’29, I’d hate to see the U.S. hit bottom and not come back!
I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
Lack of confidence masquerading as perfectionism.
Being an actor is inherently embarrassing. You have to embrace it.
A business-class flight. Pure indulgence.
Optimistic, creative, resilient.
Like everything is in high definition, and life is on your side.
In a rehearsal just after graduating from drama college, I say my lines to an older actor. He pauses, turns to the director and says: “I’m sorry, but is she going to do it like that?”
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