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.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2015 source ↗
I don’t think anyone should deplore anything about themselves. You can always improve things, but by deploring you’re putting yourself on a losing streak.
I’m slightly impatient.
Impatience. I’m not very good at waiting around or dealing with things that aren’t moving at a pace that I want them to.
I can’t stand the way my voice will crack if I’m making a speech. I hate public speaking and the emotion it dredges up.
When a person is judgmental without realizing that they are the thing they detest in others.
I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
Pope Francis. He’s going with the original program. He may not be perfect, but he’s trying.
I would laugh more. I don’t laugh enough.
A perfect day is when I can sit outside and listen to an audiobook and watch my family walking around.
Humor and honesty. Realness. No bullshit.
Daryl McCormack, Fran Healy, Adele Parks, Guy Pearce, Chaka Khan, Ed Harris
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