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.
Film actress; twice winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress
The loss of physical, financial, and psychological independence.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2005 source ↗
Ironically, it’s talking to hundreds of people in a room.
I know we all have to die, but when my time comes, I’d rather it not be because a goose flew into the engine of a plane I’m on.
A Broadway theater filled with nothing but critics.
Dying of the same awful disease that took my mother – a particularly aggressive form of dementia called Pick’s disease.
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.
Nelson Mandela.
Carrie Fisher, Craig Charles, Johnny Flynn, Felicity Jones, Robert De Niro, Robert Carlyle
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