Charles Dance
British actor
Never working again.
What is your greatest fear?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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.
I’m terrified of time. The people I love are getting older and time seems to be going faster and faster. It’s scary. I’d like it to slow down, please.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 May 2024 source ↗
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Joan Rivers
Comedian
Being poor—or, worse, having Kelsey Grammer fight with Teddy Kennedy over who is to drive me home.
Stephen Fry
Actor, writer and broadcaster
Being found out.
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A horse-riding accident when I was about 15.
Narcissism. And people coughing on me in public.
Relief and an achy feeling in your cheeks from smiling.
Losing out on a role, any role. I get so invested. I can take rejection, but only when useful feedback is given.
Endless acting jobs.
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