Don Rickles: 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 Don Rickles said elsewhere, not written here

Well, Frank Sinatra’s gone, so the rest have to stand in line.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

Cathy Rigby. She was really good in that stage version of Peter Pan. No joke.

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

Robbie Williams English singer

My wife. As someone who is forever bored, I’m never bored with or of her.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2017 source ↗

Nick Cave for his determination to hold a space for public discourse on the deep and difficult and mysterious elements of life.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 May 2025 source ↗

Meg Rosoff American novelist

My husband is the kindest, funniest, most strange and wondrous person I know.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2013 source ↗

My greatest fear is going out onstage and having the audience just stare at me.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗

Having no patience.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗

Trying too hard to be funny.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗

Perfect happiness is having a wife who loves you and doesn’t ask for too much jewelry.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2003 source ↗

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