Kenneth Branagh: What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

The question

What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

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

Kenneth Branagh

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Eating ice cream in the cinema, watching the trailers, with the main film about to start.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 March 2022 source ↗

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Terry Gross Radio interviewer

A glass of wine, a good dinner with my husband, and a day ahead of me without a deadline is close enough.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 September 2012 source ↗

T Bone Burnett Musician and record producer

Perfection is a second-rate idea. I would guess, however, that perfected happiness would be joy, the most intricate and mercurial of all sensations. The moment one recognizes joy, it flees. I’m not sure where Proust is going with this line of questioning, and I don’t want to be evasive, so I will say my idea of perfect happiness is the end of economics; we grow like flowers and fly like birds; the lion lays down with the lamb—a ridiculous idea.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 January 2014 source ↗

Mariska Hargitay