George Takei: What is your greatest fear? — FLAPSS

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What is your greatest fear?

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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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George Takei

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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?

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

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Paul Merson English footballer and pundit

Going back to addiction.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 January 2023 source ↗

To be stuck in the past.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 May 2026 source ↗

Jason Manford English comedian and singer

Wasting my life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 July 2023 source ↗

Those abduction situations where you’re packed in a bunker for 30 years.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗

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As someone who loved the ideals of American democracy and made my small contribution to it.

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Question What is the trait you most deplore in others? Values & belief

Impatience and temper. Enough already!

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Question What song would you like played at your funeral? Death & what remains

Barbra Streisand’s Evergreen from A Star Is Born or You’ll Never Walk Alone from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel.

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Question Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought? Money & investment

I went overboard on the money I invested in the production of Allegiance. It did not return, but it was fulfilling that I was able to tell a story that’s dear.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 November 2019 source ↗

Question Who most deserves an apology from you, and why? Failure & regret

As a teenager I told my father, “You led us into the camp like sheep to slaughter.” I knew I had hurt him, this man that I loved so much. That’s haunted me all my life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 November 2019 source ↗

Question Which living person do you most admire, and why? Values & belief

Pope Francis, who left the Vatican to wash the feet of non-believers.

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

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