The question
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
English actor, comedian, broadcaster and singer
I have a horrible capacity to be unctuous to people I want to impress.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 November 2010 source ↗
I can’t deal with any level of stress.
I noticed I did have an anger. Many people have anger and I was one of them.
Lack of confidence.
I still say yes to too many things.
When I was little I wanted to be a conductor. I knew there was a man in a smart coat who waved his arms around at the opera and I thought: "There's the job for me."
As a good father and a decent person who was good company – not a bore!
I am going a bit deaf and I am hoping that technology is going to come on leaps and bounds and that one day I will hear better.
My brother. I was a precious child and had this competitive thing with my older brother, which I don't think he had with me. He was very innovative and I would steal his thunder.
Three children aged three, one and 0.
Be happy and enthusiastic.
Jerry Lewis, David Hasselhoff, Sally Field, James Norton, Robert Glenister, Daryl McCormack
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