Jerry Lewis
American comedian, actor and filmmaker
When the audience walks toward the stage.
What is your greatest fear?
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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.
Losing my family.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2024 source ↗
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It used to be loneliness, and it might still be.
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At the birth of my children; when Lennox Lewis was crowned undisputed world heavyweight champion; and the day I had my final gender reassignment operation.
In my early days of transitioning, I used to come to London and meet for a drink with a group going through the same thing. I used to wear a full wig, and one night I’d drunk too much and fell asleep on the train, and my wig slipped off.
The pope. I was brought up in the Catholic religion, and I think he is trying to make the church more accepting of all. He’s got a very hard job because the church is very stuck in its rightwing conservative ways.
Not being truthful to everyone from an earlier age.
Love comes in different aspects. There’s sexual love, companion love and unconditional love, and I think you only have unconditional love with your children or your pets.
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