Carrie Fisher: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Carrie Fisher said elsewhere, not written here

My driving skills.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2001 source ↗

Others on this question

I talk too much.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 May 2026 source ↗

Self-flagellation.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 July 2025 source ↗

Impulsivity. We end up in strange places, like right now – I am in the Middle East.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 December 2025 source ↗

Frank Cottrell-Boyce British screenwriter, novelist and actor

My inability to say no.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2023 source ↗

A bad death . . . fast or slow.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2001 source ↗

My inability to have romantic relationships.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2001 source ↗

David Spade’s assistant.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2001 source ↗

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