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.
That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2019 source ↗
Child, loss or damage thereof.
Losing my virginity.
I’m terrified of time. The people I love are getting older and time seems to be going faster and faster. It’s scary. I’d like it to slow down, please.
Not being able to breathe – I get very panicky at the thought.
Oh, I have a long list. You should ask me what I like about myself—that list is much shorter.
People who punch down.
Those who are both loyal and can cook.
Thank you notes I haven't written.
I wish I always had the right word in the right moment at the right time and not two hours later in my car going home.
My niece, Petra Janney, who got her pilot’s license to rescue animals from rural kill shelters and have them placed with different pet adoption agencies.
Su Pollard, Amy Poehler, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jimmy Kimmel, Tom Fletcher, Robert De Niro
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