The question
What do you fear most?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.
Being lost and no one wanting to find me.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2024 source ↗
I’m afraid of the dark.
Couples who have to be sat side by side at L.A. dinner parties. What is that all about?!
Not waking up in the morning.
Anything underneath me in water I can’t see to the bottom of.
To believe my eyes and not my ears.
Another actress once said to me, “I’ve told you huge lies to make you feel good about yourself.” I’m not going to say who.
My friend Fritha Goodey wouldn’t have committed suicide.
I once walked up to Harriet Walter while she was having lunch on her own because I thought I knew her, and then when I got up to the table I realised I didn’t know her, I just recognised her because she was Harriet Walter.
Not marrying the person I wanted to marry, but now I think it’s probably good that I didn’t.
Any unread book a friend bought me.
Gloria Steinem, Danielle Steel, Hans Zimmer, Scott Mills, Tom Lubbock, Daphne Guinness
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