Michael Douglas: Which quality in your friends matters most to you?

The question

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Michael Douglas

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

If I haven’t seen them in years and yet can pick up conversation like it was yesterday.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 March 2011 source ↗

Others on this question

Discretion and good cheer.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2012 source ↗

A sense of humor and/or the ability to use a toilet correctly.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 January 2017 source ↗

Gayle King Broadcaster

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 July 2016 source ↗

Warren Buffett Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025

The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

Recorded His own pledge letter, written on joining the Giving Pledge in 2010, The Giving Pledge, 2010 source ↗

The 60s at the University of California at Santa Barbara weren’t bad.

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

Any cancer survivor.

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

Personal: health. Globally: nuclear weapons.

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

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