The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Not following through on things.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2025 source ↗
I’d rather name one for someone else. I’m egomaniacal.
Fear of flying.
That I have no patience.
I don’t say that I’m perfect but there’s nothing that I deplore.
On the interstate. Anyone who has driven in the United States will know that you are always very close to death – it is like the wild west on the freeways.
Unemployment – I’m an actor.
“Next! We’re looking for somebody else.”
I remember really wanting to go into space. I liked the idea of flying.
I worked on a kibbutz in Israel and had to clean out the chicken run. It was like an oven. Inside were rows and rows of chickens that had been shitting for months – the whole floor was six inches deep in chicken shit.
A successful marriage, my third.
Antonio Banderas, Shobna Gulati, Kelly Hoppen, John Grisham, Father John Misty, Jon Snow
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