Being on a Broadway stage and forgetting what the play is.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2019 source ↗
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.
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View all 256 →My greatest fear is going out onstage and having the audience just stare at me.
Losing consciousness or awareness.
Terry Gross
Radio interviewer
Living with severe chronic pain, or forgetting the name of the person I’m interviewing.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
English actor
It’s actually people knowing how fearful I am.
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View profile →Devouring an egg salad sandwich with the salt, pepper, and mayo in exactly the right proportion.
Knowing they are there for you.
The inability to laugh before 11 a.m.
Deborah Divine.
In my sleep. In bed. With a half-eaten egg salad sandwich on my chest.
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