Marina Abramović
Performance artist
To be eaten by a shark.
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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.
Not actualising my full potential.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 February 2023 source ↗
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Melissa Etheridge
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
To let fear overcome my life. We’re not gonna let that happen because love is always greater than fear.
Naming my greatest fear, because then I’ll have to admit it, won’t I?
David Hare
Playwright and screenwriter
All good dramatists are scared of the audience.
More from Daryl McCormack
View profile →Oversharing. I long to be intimately connected to people and sometimes, among strangers, I don’t read the room.
Weirdly, sometimes exhaustion keeps me awake. If I am really tired, I won’t sleep well.
Missing a cue on stage. I had to come on and move a piece of furniture with another actor and I completely forgot. I looked at the monitor and said, “Why is he standing on his own?” And somebody said, “Aren’t you meant to help him?”
Less phone use.
For being joyful.
To trust in the process.
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