Character Questionnaire
This questionnaire was invented by the noted French author Marcel Proust. These questions are frequently used in interviews so should pretend you’re interviewing your characters.
· What do you consider your greatest achievement?
· What is your idea of perfect happiness?
· What is your current state of mind?
· What is your favorite occupation?
· What is your most treasured possession?
· What or who is the greatest love of your life?
· What is your favorite journey?
· What is your most marked characteristic?
· When and where were you the happiest?
· What is it that you most dislike?
· What is your greatest fear?
· What is your greatest extravagance?
· Which living person do you most despise?
· What is your greatest regret?
· Which talent would you most like to have?
· Where would you like to live?
· What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
· What is the quality you most like in a man?
· What is the quality you most like in a woman?
· What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
· What is the trait you most deplore in others?
· What do you most value in your friends?
· Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
· Whose are your heroes in real life?
· Which living person do you most admire?
· What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
· On what occasions do you lie?
· Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
· If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
· What are your favorite names?
· How would you like to die?
· If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
· What is your motto?