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.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗
Being onstage and forgetting why I’m there.
And now, you've got nine countries, including, you know, a guy in North Korea. I mean, and there will be, something will happen. And we worried enormously about it when there were two. And we had perfectly, we had really pretty sane leaders in Kennedy and Khrushchev. You know, I mean, you were not dealing with unstable people or anything like that.
Sharks. The ones in the ocean.
Losing my mind.
Actress, mother, grandmother.
None. I love reading, and I read a good book and a bad book at the same time.
Haven’t done it yet.
I think that’s a thesis.
Two ears. I am deaf in my right ear and I’ve just developed musical tinnitus – it’s not an interesting tune and you don’t choose it. I had three weeks of Hare Krishna night and day. Then it changed to Rod Stewart’s Sailing.
Well, I’m always right.
Judd Apatow, Richard Schiff, Hugh Grant, Eleanor Tomlinson, Little Richard, Toni Collette
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