The question
What do you fear most?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.
Food in a sink drain.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2025 source ↗
I think that loss of speech, and of understanding of speech, and of understanding of writing, and of coherent writing – these losses will amount to the loss of my mind. I know what this feels like and it has no insides, no internal echo. Mind means talking to oneself. There wouldn't be any secret mind surviving in me.
That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.
Slugs. And planetary annihilation.
The concept of eternity.
My wife – for her intelligence, talent, ability to survive this business and be such a fantastic mother to our two kids. (Of course, I have to say that, because she’s sitting right here.)
As someone who did what he could with what he had.
I can’t stand the way my voice will crack if I’m making a speech. I hate public speaking and the emotion it dredges up.
They want nothing but friendship.
Before I knew what being an actor was, I wanted to be one.
Lying. Let’s not call it “untruthful.” Or “factually inaccurate.” I don’t even call it bullshit, because I like bulls. And bulls need to shit. So you can’t hold that against them. Let’s call it what it is: lying.
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