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
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View all 256 →My greatest fear is going out onstage and having the audience just stare at me.
Dying with a feeling of incompleteness.
Dying: I’m too iconic to go.
Losing my mind.
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In my sleep. In bed. With a half-eaten egg salad sandwich on my chest.
Devouring an egg salad sandwich with the salt, pepper, and mayo in exactly the right proportion.
The inability to laugh before 11 a.m.
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