Helena Bonham Carter
Actor
The loss of anything, be it a loved one or a faculty—my sight, hearing, or mind.
What is your greatest fear?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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 with a feeling of incompleteness.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2013 source ↗
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Incompetent leadership.
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