Michael Douglas: What do you value most in your friends?

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

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

Deep and complex thoughts delivered with a wicked sense of humor.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 23 February 2024 source ↗

John Malkovich Actor

That they’re kind, trustworthy, smart, and can hear and communicate and aren’t afraid to do so.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 August 2013 source ↗

That they can pick up where we left off.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 June 2013 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 ↗

Any cancer survivor.

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

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