Dustin Hoffman: Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

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

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

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The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who is 100 years old and still working.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2009 source ↗

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Harry Hill English comedian

The artist Magda Archer [his wife].

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2011 source ↗

Matt Smith English actor

My dad, because he is full of integrity and good humour; and my grandad, because he's full of the same.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2013 source ↗

Carrie Brownstein

Tristan Harris.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Joshua Ferris American author

Thomas Pynchon, for his sentences.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 January 2011 source ↗

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

The moment I knew I would spend my life with Lisa.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2009 source ↗

Question What do you fear most? Identity & self

My belief that saying it makes it happen.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2009 source ↗

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

When the coffee kicks in early in the morning and I’m on the couch with my dogs, reading the paper.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 February 2009 source ↗

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