Tommy Hilfiger
American fashion designer
At the birth of each of my children.
When were you happiest?
Question
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
Question
What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
Question
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
Question
What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
Question
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Filming Penny Dreadful for five months in the Republic of Ireland, sublime land of faeries and spontaneous song.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2024 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 581 →Opening day of The Empire Strikes Back, 86th Street Loews.
Helena Bonham Carter
Actor
Both of the days my children were born. It was like I’d stepped through a mirror and everything turned Technicolor.
Paul McKenna
British hypnotist and TV personality
Pleasure is a glass of champagne, happiness is when you are living your values. I get up each morning and I’m excited by the day, and I have good health. This is the happiest that I’ve ever been.
More from Patti LuPone
View profile →A calm and peaceful mind, landing a joke, being the name right after “And the winner is…”
Falling onstage…or anywhere.
The trait that ignites my Sicilian impulsiveness.
Laughter first and foremost, acceptance, and love.
My Sicilian impulsiveness.
More on time & hindsight
- What is the most important lesson life has taught you? 141 answers
- What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore? 82 answers
- What scares you about getting older? 63 answers
- What is the best advice you have ever received? 31 answers
- If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere, what would it say and why? 24 answers
- What is something you were told by a parent, teacher, or mentor that you still repeat to yourself? 23 answers
Also answered this
Cathy Rigby, Jerry Hall, Lance Black, Mary Tyler Moore, Julian Lloyd Webber, Jacqueline Wilson
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All time & hindsight questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject