Candice Bergen: Which quality in your friends matters most to you?

The question

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Candice Bergen

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

That they be intelligent and engaged.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 6 April 2015 source ↗

Others on this question

Being there through thin and thin. That’s friendship treasured.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 December 2013 source ↗

Kindness and laughter. If someone makes me laugh, I’m halfway in love.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 May 2024 source ↗

That they don’t die on me.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 January 2003 source ↗

Danielle Steel Novelist

Loyalty, kindness, honesty, trustworthiness, reliability.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2012 source ↗

Watching Foyle’s War in bed with my husband and the dogs.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 6 April 2015 source ↗

Search the directory for somebody in particular.