Jim Broadbent: Which quality in your friends matters most to you?

The question

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.

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

Jim Broadbent

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Their humor and that they are smarter than I, but not by too much.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 January 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

A willingness to come uptown.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 May 2011 source ↗

Honesty. Tell me the truth, even if it hurts.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 December 2020 source ↗

They’re wonderful people who seem to like me!

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 November 2013 source ↗

Malala Yousafzai Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace

They treat me as a regular person.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 12 July 2019 source ↗

It happens all the time, but childhood holidays on the North Norfolk coast were a kind of bliss.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2018 source ↗

The Obamas are impressive.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2018 source ↗

Weeping with laughter.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 January 2018 source ↗

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