Lisa Marie Presley: Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Originally asked

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.

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

Recorded Lisa Marie Presley said elsewhere, not written here

Anyone who lives outside the box.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2012 source ↗

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Dan Aykroyd Canadian and American actor and musician

My wife, Donna – she is an explorer, adventuress and true contributor to the lives of everyone she meets.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2013 source ↗

Bernadette Peters

I most admire Steve Sondheim, who is not alive anymore. But his words and music keep him alive.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2025 source ↗

Desmond Tutu Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984

Just look at a Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa and Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela, and you’ll see that one of the outstanding characteristics of each one of these is how they have poured themselves out prodigally on behalf of others, of their being so utterly selfless.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗

Richard Wilson Scottish actor and theatre director