***In class we were exposed to the Proust Questionnaire. These are my responses...***
__1.__What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A place where stress does not exist.
__2.__What is your greatest fear?
Being strangled
__3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
I stifle my impulses.
__4.__What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Close-mindedness
__5.__Which living person do you most admire?
I admire Leonardo Dicaprio as an actor.
__6.__What is your greatest extravagance?
The family’s spoiled dog.
__7.__What is your current state of mind?
Deflated
__8.__What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Patience is a virtue.
__9.__On what occasion do you lie?
The occasion in which it would better my position to lie.
__10.__What do you most dislike about your appearance?
My face wrinkles up when I am focused.
__11.__Which living person do you most despise?
Harvey Weinstein
__12.__What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to have their own opinion.
__13.__What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Same as before. One who stands their ground.
__14.__Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Psychologically, Physically.
__15.__What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My Dad.
__16.__When and where were you happiest?
15. I was the happiest with where I was comfortably in the center of responsibility.
__17.__Which talent would you most like to have?
The ability to reach emotional extremes without hurting myself.
__18.__If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Insecurities.
__19.__What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Every time a play closes.
__20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
Oxygen.
__21.__Where would you most like to live?
Everywhere.
__22.__What is your most treasured possession?
\_(* *)_/ probably my bed :DD
__23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
A place where you feel there is no way forward.
__24.__What is your favorite occupation?
No occupation.
__25.__What is your most marked characteristic?
Independent.
__26.__What do you most value in your friends?
Trust.
__27.__Who are your favorite writers?
Fitzgerald, Salinger.
__28.__Who is your hero of fiction?
PERCY JACKSON
__29.__Which historical figure do you most identify with?
God
__30.__Who are your heroes in real life?
My father
__31.__What are your favorite names?
Jela, Talia
__32.__What is it that you most dislike?
Insincerity
__33.__What is your greatest regret?
Growing up too quickly.
__34.__How would you like to die?
Painlessly and appreciated.
__35.__What is your motto?
Pain is the privilege of living.
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The question I struggled with the most with…
- What do you consider your greatest achievement?
I struggled to pin point exactly what my greatest achievement is to me personally but I knew the only time I feel true satisfaction is when I am doing something within a play. I settled for every time a play closes.
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The answer I will probably change in 5 years is…(because)...
- What do you consider your greatest achievement?
My answer would also change as I feel that as I leave high school I will change a lot as I am older. I would hope to see myself make personal achievements that I am proud of.
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The answer that surprised me the most was….
- On what occasion do you lie?
"The occasion in which it would better my position to lie."
This being my response surprised me as I like to think that I am a generally honest person and usually prefer to tell people the truth over what makes them happy. My response makes myself sound manipulative rather then just interested in my well being.
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the question I had an instinctual reaction to and could easily answer was...
- What is your greatest regret?
Growing up too quickly.
I often think about how when I was little I never wanted to grow up. I always admired adults but I knew being a child without responsibilities was far better then working and maintaining a balance in life. When a event occurred when I was thirteen I was forced into independence as my situation drastically changed and I learned to take care of myself instead. When I reflect on it, it was a good situation to teach me how to depend on myself but I often regret how much fun I missed out on being consumed by sadness or the stress of being alone. I often wish that I had let life do it's thing and I continued to have fun during that time.
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Then...Expand on one...
-Which talent would you most like to have?
The ability to reach emotional extremes without hurting myself.
This response is extremely relevant to my life at the moment as I am selling my soul to acting and learning mass amounts of information about realism. I also have been challenging myself with scenes that emotionally reach extremes I have not reached as an actor. I want to find the sweet spot of reaching those extremes of anger, despair, joy and have a personal ritual to pull myself back to who and where I am.