Ernest Borgnine: Which living person do you most admire, and why?

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.

Recorded Ernest Borgnine said elsewhere, not written here

My own doctor, Paul Rudnick.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2011 source ↗

Others on this question

Billy Ocean British singer

He passed away a few months ago: Muhammad Ali.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 August 2016 source ↗

Joan Collins English actress and writer

Bill Clinton, I think he was a great president (who cares about his indiscretions?).

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2014 source ↗

Daniel Clowes American cartoonist and writer

It's a fool's errand to waste time admiring anybody.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2012 source ↗

Martin Kemp English musician and actor

Buzz Aldrin. I met him about 10 years ago and all I could do was look at his feet. What greater thing can you do than walk on the moon?

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 July 2018 source ↗

When: I finish a good scene. Where: looking back, in the navy.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2011 source ↗

Finally, a happy marriage, of now 39 years!

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 February 2011 source ↗

Having gone through the depression of ’29, I’d hate to see the U.S. hit bottom and not come back!

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2011 source ↗

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