Stanley Tucci: What do you fear most?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

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Stanley Tucci

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Losing one of my children, as there is no greater loss.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗

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Jane Asher English actress and author

I’ve always been frightened of the dark. I sometimes wonder whether it stems from being away filming from the age of five. I can remember being devastatingly homesick and having a little nightlight I used to look at to reassure myself things were all right.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2023 source ↗

Dolly Parton American singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman

Flipping my wig.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2012 source ↗

Craig Charles English actor

Losing my marbles.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗

Jack Whitehall English comedian, actor, presenter and writer

Turning into my father.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 April 2023 source ↗

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Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

President Zelenskyy.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗

Question What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? Time & hindsight

Every time one of my kids was born and I knew that they were healthy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2016 source ↗

Question What disappointment has stayed with you longest? Failure & regret

I am always disappointed in myself. I always feel that I haven’t achieved enough, or been as good a parent as I could be.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2016 source ↗

Question What most recently moved you to tears? Identity & self

I cried recently, thinking about my late wife.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2016 source ↗

Question Who deserves an apology from you, and for what? Failure & regret

My late wife – she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn’t be in that room, because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn’t be able to take care of the kids after.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2016 source ↗

Question What does happiness look like for you when life is going well? Identity & self

A meal alfresco with people I love.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 15 October 2024 source ↗

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