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 ↗
To let fear overcome my life. We’re not gonna let that happen because love is always greater than fear.
Something happening to one of my children.
Not doing the above.
Being poor—or, worse, having Kelsey Grammer fight with Teddy Kennedy over who is to drive me home.
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.
Charles Dance, Daryl McCormack, Sally Field, Jerry Lewis, David Hasselhoff, James Norton
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