Sunday, October 17, 2010

The Proust Questionnaire

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A life where I am spiritually, emotionally, artistically, and romantically fulfilled.

2. What is your greatest fear?
Being universally disliked.

3. What historical figure do you most identify with?

I skipped this question and came back to it, but I still can't think of one. I've considered Helen Hayes or Eleanora Duse, but those answers seem forced. I'll let you know if I come up with one.

4. Which living person do you most admire?
Jeff Daniels. He seems able to balance his family with his career.

5. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My social anxiety, and the awkwardness it causes.

6. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Unbendable negativity.

7. What is your greatest extravagance?
I own more clothing and more make-up than any non-celebrity should own.

8. On what occasion do you lie?
When I think it will help others in some way.

9. What do you dislike most about your appearance?
I dislike that my neck always seems to look fat, no matter how slammin' my body looks.

10. When and where were you happiest?
London, in the summer of 2010.

11. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I wish I could be more charming (i.e. less awkward and frightened), both in professional and social situations.

12. If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
I would make them rich, so that they wouldn't feel limited in their lives by the hunt for money.

13. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Getting into graduate school for acting.

14. If you died and came back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?
A mirror.

15. What is your most treasured possession?
Lady MacBook. (Runner-up being my dilapidated childhood stuffed animal: a pig, creatively named "Piggy".)

16. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
The absence of faith, hope, and love.

17. Who are your real heroes in life?
The people who never gave up.

18. What is it that you most dislike?
The smell of oranges.

19. How would you like to die?
Under mysterious circumstances.

20. What is your motto?
Over-thinking is underrated.

3 comments:

Mega said...

I really like this one.

#2- Your greatest fear will never come true

#5- Really? I know its been a while but you didn't seem awkward at all to me. I miss the spontaneous dancing.

#14- Why a mirror?

#20- Agreed

Angela said...

@Mega -- There's something nice about mirrors. They show us things that we normally wouldn't be able to see. And a mirror isn't just a mirror: it takes on the personality of everything around it. A mirror can be anything you want it to be.

Evil Twin Angela said...

Um... how is it that like 90% of my answers would be the exact same, including hating the smell of oranges, how random is that?