Shonda Rhimes: What trait do you most dislike in other people?

The question

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Shonda Rhimes

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

People who feed off of their misery. The whiners and complainers.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

When a person is judgmental without realizing that they are the thing they detest in others.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2015 source ↗

Lack of acceptance of my bad timekeeping

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 November 2024 source ↗

People who think they’re always right.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗

Entitlement or a lack of manners. Though I find they often flock together.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2017 source ↗

Warm chocolate cake, a gorgeous fire, and Idris Elba. Also, world peace.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 4 October 2017 source ↗

Obama. He is a man of integrity and nobody seems to have integrity these days.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2017 source ↗

My ability to make everything about me.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2017 source ↗

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