Candice Bergen: What do you value most in your friends?

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.

Recorded Candice Bergen 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 for each other during good times and bad.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 2 September 2025 source ↗

I think I value the same things everyone does—loyalty, a sense of humor, the ability to make campaign contributions.

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

Julie Taymor Theatre and film director

Love of fun and food and great conversation.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 October 2022 source ↗

Pelé Brazilian footballer; three-time World Cup winner

Loyalty. Most of my friends have been around me for decades.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2014 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.