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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Lily Tomlin Comedian and actor

Filling out this Proust Questionnaire. I try to be in the moment.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 source ↗

Joyce Carol Oates Novelist, short story writer and essayist

“Perfect happiness!”—waking in the morning to a clear & benevolent-seeming sky, a view from a window of a beautiful (if overgrown) garden, a cat purring. The excitement of rewriting the previous day’s work, & continuing on from that point energized & hopeful. For a writer, “happiness” isn’t likely to ever be “perfect”—but it is likely to be bound up with the work-in-progress. First drafts tend to be frustrating, exhausting—subsequent drafts sometimes move swiftly, even miraculously. For most adults, “Perfect is the enemy of good”—we learn to appreciate whatever measure of happiness we have, however modest.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 November 2018 source ↗

Luise Rainer