John Malkovich
Actor
Watching seeds grow in the greenhouse. Drawing or reading or cooking.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A good nap and a full house.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 November 2014 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 161 →Watching a great movie in the afternoon and then taking a long nap.
Judy Blume
Novelist
A balmy, moonlit evening in Key West. George and I are enjoying a pasta dinner on the balcony overlooking the ocean. Ella Fitzgerald is singing in the background.
Henry R. Kravis
Financier; co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Our wedding day is tied with the births of my three children as the best days of my life.
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View profile →That I take this questionnaire too seriously and reveal my crimes and misdemeanors, or I treat this questionnaire too flippantly and bring shame to the House of Proust.
Stealing from the elderly and then acting real cocky about it.
A love of laughter and a shared belief that life is a dream.
People who can’t read my mind.
Beyoncé/Beyoncé’s hair person.
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