Lauren Bacall: 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 Lauren Bacall said elsewhere, not written here

No one I can think of offhand.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2004 source ↗

Others on this question

Frank Cottrell-Boyce British screenwriter, novelist and actor

So many. All childcarers and most primary teachers.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2023 source ↗

Belinda Carlisle American singer

Pamela Anderson, because I love her strength and honesty and vulnerability at the same time.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2023 source ↗

Sebastian Coe British athlete and politician

Among others, Mikhail Gorbachev for leadership that enabled the peaceful transition from communism in eastern Europe.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2012 source ↗

I know too many really good people to choose just one person—and that is not indecision.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2009 source ↗

Waking up in the morning.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2004 source ↗

Not waking up in the morning.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2004 source ↗

Search the directory for somebody in particular.