Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed final question in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire, repeated verbatim across respondent pages.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 March 2016 source ↗
When I am ready. When I have had enough. When I can no longer give anything. When I can no longer appreciate the small beauties. Without pain or remorse.
Singing onstage—and everyone walking around me saying, “Look how happy she looks.”
Sufficiently well to see Johnson and Truss and then two or three days later, she’s dead. I thought, that’s fantastic. That’s something to celebrate. That’s a great death.
Swiftly, painlessly, and old.
Being inside and watching really bad weather outside … and, if it’s after 5:30 P.M., with a glass of Chardonnay in hand.
A bumpy flight … or driving with my son Sam, who drives great, but I still can’t believe he’s old enough.
That they won’t let me hide.
Overall I’d have to say my earnestness.
Malala Yousafzai, Martina Navratilova, Misty Copeland, and Hillary Clinton.
I’d be more patient, which I didn’t consider a virtue until right this moment.
Helena Bonham Carter, Julie Taymor, Audra McDonald, Stephen Fry, Rita Moreno, Lily Tomlin
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