Luise Rainer: What trait do you most dislike in other people?

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What trait do you most dislike in other people?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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To be dishonest. Sometimes people have to be dishonest in order not to hurt, but if someone is basically dishonest, that is a different matter.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗

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Damian Lewis

Selfishness. People who block junctions in their car.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2017 source ↗

Craig Charles English actor

Selfishness and cruelty.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗

Ina Garten Cookery writer and shop owner

Lying on the sofa watching old episodes of Law & Order all day.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2016 source ↗

Douglas Booth

When people are rude to their waiter.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 February 2025 source ↗

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Question What do you fear most? Identity & self

To be abandoned.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗

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

First of all, to be in love. The second way of being very happy is to be able to get the best out of yourself, whatever it is.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 March 2010 source ↗

Question What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? Time & hindsight

In the mountains, climbing into beautiful places—anything that has to do with nature. I feel best in nature or near nature. And I was most happy, of course, when I was with my husband and we were in beautiful landscapes.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗

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

My inferiority complex.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗

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

Mandela. Also, artists and painters. I admire people who are creative.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗

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