Sally Field
Actor
Malala Yousafzai, Martina Navratilova, Misty Copeland, and Hillary Clinton.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Question
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
Question
What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
Question
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
Question
How would you like to die?
Death & what remains
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Probably Daniel Barenboim. His blend of insane talent, intellect, and profound humanitarianism is one that comes along very, very rarely. I would put Martina Navratilova and Stephen Sondheim in a tie for second.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2015 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 406 →
Ethan Hawke
Actor, director and novelist
Mike Leigh: his work is important.
Nelson Mandela.
Vicky McClure
English actress
Paul Irons, the deputy head at my school, Fernwood comprehensive. He was an inspiration, and still is.
More from Stephen Fry
View profile →Lying in one of two twin hammocks on an English lawn in June. A glass of something cool and vinous is balanced on my tummy. A speaker hanging above the tree plays Glenn Gould. A Wodehouse novel is spread-eagled on my chest. I will pick it up in a moment. Oh, the other hammock is occupied by my beloved husband.
Being found out.
My laziness. Not in work-related matters, but social laziness. Thank-you letters, organization, that sort of thing.
Over two weeks, in a pleasant fug of palliative morphine if necessary. Just time to say a cheerful good-bye to everyone.
More on values & belief
- What is the trait you most deplore in others? 197 answers
- What is something everyone in your world agrees about that you think is wrong? 79 answers
- What are you unwilling to optimise? 30 answers
- What have you come to understand about what it means to be human? 14 answers
- What is the most overrated virtue? 10 answers
- What do you need to believe in order to get through the day? 9 answers
Also answered this
Elisabeth Moss, Zoë Wanamaker, Robert Carlyle, Mel Giedroyc, Anna Paquin, Eugene Levy
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All values & belief questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject