What is your greatest fear?

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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.

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Recorded Olivia de Havilland said elsewhere, not written here
The loss of physical, financial, and psychological independence.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2005 source ↗

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Angela Griffin British actress and television presenter
Not working. I want to be one of those old actors on the set of Casualty at 95, who quietly passes away in the actual scene rather than at home.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 August 2022 source ↗
Serena Williams United States professional tennis player, 1995–2022
I don’t think about my greatest fear.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2021 source ↗

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Thrust into my profession without any training whatsoever, I had to just flounder and just find my way. It was an agonizing experience. It’s like jumping off a diving board in the Olympic contest without knowing how to swim or dive, and I just had to find my way. So one day, I said to Jimmy Cagney, “Jimmy, what is acting?” and he said, “I don’t know.” He said, “All I can tell you is whatever you say, mean it,” and I thought that marvelous counsel.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Washington, D.C., 5 October 2006 source ↗

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