Bill Maher: What do you fear most?

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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.

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Bill Maher

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Waking up after a sleepover at John Waters’s house and finding my sleeping bag isn’t zipped up the same way as when I passed out. Or “President Palin.”

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2010 source ↗

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Sophia Loren

To overcook that plate of fettuccine.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2021 source ↗

Hugh Grant Actor

The cat bowls. With the old cat food dried on like cement.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2024 source ↗

Mike Wallace American journalist

I don’t have any left. I’ve already lost a son. I guess, maybe, that my wife would leave me, but she wouldn’t dare.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2015 source ↗

George Takei

There’s no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears. Though I do have that dream that I walk out onto the stage nude. Does that count?

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2015 source ↗

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Right now, here with you. Let’s not ruin it by talking.

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Being in love while organizing my closet.

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