Proust Questionnaire: Alan Arkin's answers

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On Sun, 25 Oct 15 04:02:02 UTC Alan Arkin (44) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To feel like you are living under a black cloud and nothing you do will make that cloud go away.
Where would you like to live?: Nowhere different than where I am living now in a place where Im minutes from water and minutes from forests
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have a supportive and loving relationship and to have enough money to allow me to live a comfortable life.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: I have an inability to not say anything when stupid people say stupid things in my presence.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: I've never read about a fictional character that I would identify as a hero
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Ariel Sharon, Henry Rollins, Meyer Lansky, Theodore Roosevelt
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Single mothers who battle the odds to raise their sons and daughters the right way
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: I don't have any fictional heroines
Your favorite painter?: Salvador Dali
Your favorite musician?: I don't have one favorite musician. My favorite musician could change by the day.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Honesty and integrity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: honesty and integrity
Your favorite virtue?: I don't have a favorite virtue.
Your favorite occupation?: If I could do this life all over again, I would be a musician and tour all over.
Who would you have liked to be?: I feel pretty damn good being myself. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone.
Your most marked characteristic?: My booming voice
What do you most value in your friends?: Their willingness to be there for me when called upon
What is your principle defect?: I can get bored with people and relationships easily.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To lose the ones I love- parents, wife- in rapid succession
What would you like to be?: Living a more yogic life
What is your favorite color?: Purple or black
What is your favorite flower?: hibiscus
What is your favorite bird?: the crow
Who are your favorite prose writers?: gabriel garcia marquez, dennis lehane,
Who are your favorite poets?: I don't like poetry
Who are your heroes in real life?: My mother
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Golda Meir
What are your favorite names?: I don't have any
What is it you most dislike?: pathological liars
What historical figures do you most despise?: Those who have made history for slaughtering masses
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Six Day War
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: the ability to sing
How would you like to die?: In my sleep, in my own bed
What is your present state of mind?: calm and relaxed after a day of day drinking
What is your motto?: While you need to work your ass off to achieve what you want, you still need to stop and smell the roses and enjoy the world around you.

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