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

A love of laughter and a shared belief that life is a dream.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 November 2014 source ↗

I like all my friends for different reasons, so it’s hard to pick one quality I value most highly overall.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 April 2014 source ↗

They take my calls.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 April 2017 source ↗

Honesty. Tell me the truth, even if it hurts.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 December 2020 source ↗

Any cancer survivor.

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

Personal: health. Globally: nuclear weapons.

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

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