There’s no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears. Though I do have that dream that I walk out onto the stage nude. Does that count?
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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.
Not dying before my wife and kids.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 February 2022 source ↗
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Malala Yousafzai
Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace
Losing my family. And fear that the world won't become a better place.
Eugene Levy
Actor and writer
Being on a Broadway stage and forgetting what the play is.
Helena Bonham Carter
Actor
The loss of anything, be it a loved one or a faculty—my sight, hearing, or mind.
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View profile →Supreme self-confidence and my wife.
Bullying.
I need to do more whale-watching. I must learn to play the guitar. I would like to play Uncle Vanya, King Lear and a panto Dame. The icing on that cake would be if they were all in the same season.
John Boyega’s vital organs. If I couldn’t have them all, then just his heart.
Through the winter before we tuck up at night, I always warm the bed with a hairdryer.
Whining.
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