The question
What do you fear most?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.
Dying too young, and spiders.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
Not working. I want to be one of those old actors on the set of Casualty at 95, who quietly passes away in the actual scene rather than at home.
Having no purpose.
Climate change, duh.
Rodents – including the tiniest mouse.
A hand-painted beaded dress from New York. It weighs about 16lb and cost me £4,000, 30 years ago.
Like you’ve got no other thought in your head.
People who aren’t kind enough.
I don’t say that I’m perfect but there’s nothing that I deplore.
Stay out of other people’s business.
Kind, fun and professional.
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