Keith Richards: 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.

Keith Richards

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

That they don’t die on me.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 January 2003 source ↗

Others on this question

Humor. Laughing with my girlfriends is one of my great joys.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 February 2025 source ↗

Their responsibility to the friendship.

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

Lily Tomlin Comedian and actor

That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 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 ↗

Modesty and humility.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2003 source ↗

Right up to this question.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2003 source ↗

Search the directory for somebody in particular.