My greatest fear is going out onstage and having the audience just stare at me.
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
Running out of Molecule cologne.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2022 source ↗
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Collapse of the imagination.
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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.
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View profile →My education. Benedictine monks didn’t really prepare me for the life I have lived.
Dame Joan Collins. She insists on being happy whatever is going on and, despite being a Tory, is a very caring person.
My cold indifference towards discarded friends.
A gig in Chatham.
Sydney mardi gras, 1993.
I’ve made some terrible remarks about people over the years in the interests of light entertainment, and I regret them all.
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