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.
I can be pedantic at times.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗
I can be horribly smug and conceited, and yet always in the back of my mind is the thought that things could go terribly wrong at any moment.
Overall I’d have to say my earnestness.
I would deplore feeling deplorable about myself.
I don’t deplore anything about myself, but I am a perfectionist.
The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
Being confined in a straitjacket.
Being able to share a confidence.
The inability to listen.
The delivery room when my children and grandchildren were born.
My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
Alex Hassell, Helena Bonham Carter, Adrian Dunbar, Sofia Coppola, Ben Okri, Christine Baranski
Search the directory for somebody in particular.