Yogi Berra
Baseball catcher and manager; ten-time World Series winner with the New York Yankees
To relax without being bothered.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A beautiful meal and a glass of wine with my favorite people and lots of laughter ringing around the table.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 May 2024 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 165 →Being with those that I love, and they have no problems.
I’m walking down the street angrily muttering to myself and then I run into a neighbor or former coworker and they catch me in this moment of private-public expression. It’s nice to be seen sometimes.
Being with my husband, David, and the boys.
More from Alfred Molina
View profile →Dying alone and in pain.
Cruelty and not treating others as equals.
My first payday as a professional actor, knowing this was the beginning of the rest of my life, and the day my daughter told me I wasn’t the worst dad in the world.
Self-doubt and a reoccurring fear that people would prefer the other Alfred Molina.
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