Chiwetel Ejiofor
English actor
It’s actually people knowing how fearful I am.
What is your greatest fear?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What do you value most in your friends?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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.
I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2015 source ↗
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Geoffrey Rush
Australian actor
Being alone in a room with a tiger: a recurring dream, never reality, fortunately.
Both my grandmother and my mother got dementia. My grandmother has passed away. My mother is in a home. Dementia is my biggest fear because it robs you of the very thing that makes life special.
That I will suddenly lose my sense of humor, and everyone knows it but me.
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View profile →I can be a huge asshole, not very nice. Doesn’t happen very often, but when it happens, it’s not attractive.
When a person is judgmental without realizing that they are the thing they detest in others.
Humor and honesty. Realness. No bullshit.
I would laugh more. I don’t laugh enough.
A perfect day is when I can sit outside and listen to an audiobook and watch my family walking around.
Pope Francis. He’s going with the original program. He may not be perfect, but he’s trying.
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