Jimmy Kimmel: What do you fear most?

The question

Originally asked

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.

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

Jimmy Kimmel

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Danger to my children. And tidal waves.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2020 source ↗

Others on this question

Olivia de Havilland Film actress; twice winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress

The loss of physical, financial, and psychological independence.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2005 source ↗

Angela Griffin British actress and television presenter

Not working. I want to be one of those old actors on the set of Casualty at 95, who quietly passes away in the actual scene rather than at home.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 August 2022 source ↗

Personal: health. Globally: nuclear weapons.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2011 source ↗

A Reform government.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2025 source ↗

I'm a happy guy in general, but the feeling of freedom and fun I got driving around with my friends in my first car is hard to top.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2020 source ↗

Floating in a river full of fat trout.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 November 2020 source ↗

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