Michael Douglas: What do you fear most?

The question

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.

Michael Douglas

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Personal: health. Globally: nuclear weapons.

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

Others on this question

John Lewis U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966

As a participant in the movement, as I was sitting in, I came to that point where I lost all sense of fear.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Chicago, 10 June 2004 source ↗

Daphne Guinness British socialite

Aggression without provocation or consequences.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2024 source ↗

Aung San Suu Kyi Leader of the National League for Democracy; Nobel Peace Prize laureate; State Counsellor of Myanmar, 2016–2021

To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

Recorded Oslo City Hall, The Nobel Foundation, 16 June 2012 source ↗

Endless vomiting. That comes from my emetophobia, which is a huge part of my OCD.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 May 2026 source ↗

The 60s at the University of California at Santa Barbara weren’t bad.

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

Any cancer survivor.

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

If I haven’t seen them in years and yet can pick up conversation like it was yesterday.

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

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