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.
I’m not fond of snakes.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 July 2025 source ↗
I’ve been a strong advocate that all my five children should be great swimmers, so you can deduce what my fear is.
Every actor has the same fear – ie, you’re never going to work again.
That we will have waited too long to save the earth from environmental catastrophe.
I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
Overwhelming, discombobulating, irrational and unreasonable.
Not being able to fend for myself and being a burden to others.
An inability to get myself to bed at a reasonable hour.
Ulysses by James Joyce, but I might make a start next week – or the week after that …
Hopeful, egalitarian, overweight.
As not being a total bollix.
Willem Dafoe, Andrew O’Hagan, Gayle King, Fran Lebowitz, Seth Meyers, Angela Griffin
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