Losing track (see above).
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
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.
To experience the utter powerlessness of locked-in syndrome.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 270 →Not trying something I really want to do.
Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
Being unprepared.
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View profile →Never to have played at the National or the RSC.
Becoming doubly incontinent.
I wanted to be a doctor, like my father.
On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life.
Glenda Jackson said I was an amateur during rehearsal for The White Devil at the Old Vic. I called her a cow, but that was inadequate.
To my mother for disappointing her. Mummy wanted me to be a different sort of person from who I am, but one can’t change oneself.
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