John Simm
English musician and actor
Outliving my kids – and rats.
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Originally asked
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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
People finding out my greatest fear.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2026 source ↗
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Cybill Shepherd
American actress and former model
Dying in a plane crash and having somebody else get top billing.
Generally? Hurting someone’s feelings. Specifically? Being kidnapped while on vacation.
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Hasn’t happened yet, it’s coming.
Quietly somewhat funny.
Martin Sheen, simply the kindest and most fun-loving person and serious activist I’ve ever known. If Jesus was alive today he’d point to Martin Sheen and say, “That’s what I was talking about.”
Getting even older.
Inability to listen.
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