Ernest Borgnine: What do you fear most?

The question

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.

Ernest Borgnine

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Having gone through the depression of ’29, I’d hate to see the U.S. hit bottom and not come back!

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2011 source ↗

Others on this question

John Lewis U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966

As a participant in the movement, as I was sitting in, I came to that point where I lost all sense of fear.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Chicago, 10 June 2004 source ↗

Crashing in an aeroplane into an ocean at night.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗

Hans Zimmer Film composer

A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2019 source ↗

Edward Enninful Ghanaian-born English editor and stylist

When I get to the restaurant and don’t see any hot sauce on the table.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 December 2022 source ↗

Finally, a happy marriage, of now 39 years!

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

My own doctor, Paul Rudnick.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2011 source ↗

When: I finish a good scene. Where: looking back, in the navy.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2011 source ↗

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