Don Rickles: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

Originally asked

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

The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.

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

Recorded Don Rickles said elsewhere, not written here

Having no patience.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

Charlotte Church Welsh singer-songwriter and actress

Procrastination.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗

I dislike my impatience.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

Bruce Dickinson English heavy metal singer

Procrastination.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2024 source ↗

My ability to stress myself out.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2017 source ↗

Well, Frank Sinatra’s gone, so the rest have to stand in line.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗

My greatest fear is going out onstage and having the audience just stare at me.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗

Trying too hard to be funny.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗

Perfect happiness is having a wife who loves you and doesn’t ask for too much jewelry.

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

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