My last blog post was all about how wonderful folks I know are and how varied their talents and experiences are. Today, I read a little blurb in this month's Vanity Fair about their esteemed Proust Questionnaire and the luminaries who have answered it in sometimes surprising ways. So, I'm putting those two ideas together here and asking all of you, dear readers, to complete your own version of the questionnaire.
If you haven't seen the questionnaire in its regular spot in VF, you've probably seen actors and suchlike answering similar questions from James Lipton and his ever so serious beard on "Inside the Actors Studio." If you're like me, you sometimes speculate on what your own answers would be if you ever gained the kind of notoriety necessary for people to actually ask you those kinds of questions. If you're like me in that respect, you've probably also written and revised your Oscar (TM) acceptance speech a few times...
Anyway, below is a list of the questions in the VF questionnaire. Please answer it. Please read other people's answers. And, if you want, post your Oscar speech, too.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
What is your greatest fear?
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Which living person do you most admire?
What is your greatest extravagance?
What is your current state of mind?
What is the quality you most like in a man?
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
When and where were you happiest?
Who are your favorite writers?
Which talent would you most like to have?
Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Who are your heroes in real life?
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Where would you like to live?
What is your most treasured possession?
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
What do you most value in your friends?
What are your favorite names?
What is it that you most dislike?
What is your greatest regret?
How would you like to die?
What is your motto?
Go ahead...spill it.
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