Saturday, December 9, 2006

The Proust Questionnaire...? Not so! (He just answered the questions)

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Not doing what I love to do. My mom's sadness.

Where would you like to live?

NYC, London, France, Italy

What is your idea of earthly happiness, your dream of happiness?

Doing what I love to do, which is to act, and making money doing it, then giving that money to my family and to those in need. Spending time with my loved ones and talking for hours in cafes.

What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?

Not being able to share my gifts. Not loving and not being loved.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent?

Laziness. The level of bitchiness I choose to be.

Who are your favorite heroes in real life?

Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, the Farmer in Lynn Redgrave's NIGHTINGALE

Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?

Atticus Finch

Who are your favorite heroines in real life?

My Ma, Little Edie Bouvier Beale, Romy Schneider, Meryl Streep, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Gena Rowlands, Molly Craig and her sister Daisy and her cousin Gracie

Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?

Rosalind, Celia, Molly Gibson, Margaret Johnson, Clara Johnson, Elizabeth Bennet, Josephine March

What historical figures do you most admire?

Jeanne d'Arc, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Jr

What historical figures do you most despise?

Those that want to wipe away lives.

What event in military history do you most admire?

Any that involved a handshake, an open-mind, understanding of the other's culture, listening, PEACE.

What reform do you most admire?

Have we really put reforms into action? Yeah, we have. BUT when we have, have we really stuck to them to make them work and grow and thrive? Have we really progressed to a better society (i.e. racism, segregation)?

Your favorite painters?

Käthe Kollwitz, Marc Chagall, Gustav Klimt, Edvard Munch, Amedeo Modigliani

Your favorite musicians, composers?

Chopin, Bach, Strauss II, Barber, Joni Mitchell, Christine Andreas, Christine Ebersole, Nat King Cole, Dionne Warwick, Ella Fitzgerald, June Christy, En Vogue, Chet Baker, Judy Garland, Tina Turner, Michel Legrand, Lizz Wright, Stevie Wonder

The quality you most admire in a man?

Honesty, communication, intelligence & genuine sensitivity

The quality you most admire in a woman?

Maternalness, intelligence & a sense of humour

Your favorite virtue?

Patience & forgiveness

Your favorite occupation?

Acting

Who would you have liked to have been?

Romy Schneider's and Natalie Wood's Best Friend

What would you like to be?

A healer

Your most marked characteristic?

Passion

What do you most value in your friends?

Their friendship

What is your favorite color?

Purple

What is your favorite flower?

Sampaguita. Beautiful, powerful, delicate smell from such a small flower.

What is your favorite bird?

Doves (is that cliché, or what?), cranes, nightingales

Who are your favorite prose writers?

Shakespeare, Chekhov, John Cassavetes, Federico Garcia Lorca, Nilo Cruz, Mary Zimmerman, Jose Rivera, Elizabeth Gaskell

Who are your favorite poets? Shakespeare, Anna Akhmatova, Rainer Maria Rilke, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Edna St Vincent Millay

What are your favorite names? Whatever I name my children (if I have any).

What is it you most dislike? Idiots, douchebags, displaying self-pity to garner "sympathy" from others, meanness, rudeness, apathy, lack of understanding, laid-backness, closed-minds, violence

What natural gift would you most like to possess?

Dancing

How would you like to die?

Of natural causes in my sleep

What is your present state of mind?

Unfocused

What is your motto?

Jump out of the plane. Also...Pray for peace within each individual before praying for "peace on earth."

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DADDY!!!

Currently reading: Cymbeline (Arden Shakespeare Second)