Ernest Borgnine: What is your greatest fear?

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

Safety of loved ones.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2024 source ↗

To lose the ability to do my work.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗

Joseph Fiennes English actor

That fear becomes too great.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗

Pauline McLynn Irish character actress and author

Not being able to breathe – I get very panicky at the thought.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 July 2023 source ↗

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

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

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