Robert Evans: Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

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

Recorded Robert Evans said elsewhere, not written here

Anyone who can laugh at themselves.

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

Others on this question

Jackie Chan Hong Kong actor and martial artist

Wow, so many – Robert De Niro, James Cameron, Will Smith.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 November 2010 source ↗

John Waters American filmmaker

Johnny Mathis - he is so perfect.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗

Jaime Winstone English actress

My Nanny Frances, my mum's mum.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2012 source ↗

Hilary Swank Actor

My mum, because I have seen how she has struggled and how she wants to continue to grow.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 March 2011 source ↗

False humility.

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

Flirting with danger.

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

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

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

At the altar all seven times.

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

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