In their new book Influence, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen each fill out a questionnaire about their “true characteristics and emotions.”
In the late 19th century, the French writer Marcel Proust stumbled upon a questionnaire called “An Album to Record Thoughts, Feelings, etc.”
Proust answered the survey several times in his life, and helped popularize the revelatory questions, which became known as the Proust questionnaire, as a way to uncover a subject’s true characteristics and emotions ever since.
We had fun filling out our questionnaires and includes the original documents here. -MKA
Ashley:
Your most marked characteristic?
“possessing a creative business mind”
The quality you most like in a man?
“sense o humor”
The quality you most like a woman?
“empowered, but not strong sense self (sense of humor)”
What do you most value in your friends?
“honesty + loyalty”
What is your principle defect?
“socially awkward”
What is your favorite occupation?
“every occupation”
What is your dream of happiness?
“being happy (which I am) – rock band has helped”
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
“death”
What you would like to be?
“‘a wise woman’ -Lauren Hutton”
In what country would you like to live?
“France”
What is your favorite color?
“black”
What is your favorite flower?
“peonies”
What is your favorite bird?
“bald eagle”
Who are you favorite prose writers?
“Jane Austen”
Who are your favorite poets?
“Freud”
Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
“Christopher Guest”
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
“Estella from ‘Great Expectations’”
Who are you favorite composers?
“Eddie Vedder, Thom Yorker, Ben Harper”
Who are your favorite painters?
“Picasso, George Condo, Cy Thombly”
Who are your heroes in real life
“DVF, Lauren Hutton, Anna Wintour, and of course – mom”
What is it you most dislike?
“bullshit”
What natural gift woul you most like to possess?
“to be able to sing well”
How you like to die?
“in my sleep obviously”
What is your present state of mind?
“content”
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
“work too much”
What is your motto?
“‘work your way down, not up’ dream big. work it our from there.”
Your name or psuedo?
“smash, smashly, mom, ash, mom, cool mom”
Mary Kate:
Your most marked characteristic?
“media & big sunglasses and starbucks friends & family sarcasm a chateuse jewelry”
The quality you most like in a man?
“always changing too many (and they’re always changing)”
The quality you most like a woman?
“trust, too little too few (but trust is always up there)”
What do you most value in your friends?
“non judgment no judgment, non judgmental”
What is your principle defect?
“giving people the benefit of the doubt”
What is your favorite occupation?
“not having one, being a full-time gemini”
What is your dream of happiness?
“I dont understand the question”
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
“to be taken advantage of, to lose trust in someone but, (or) ‘every moment of light and dark is a miracle’ -Whitman”
What you would like to be?
“taller”
In what country would you like to live?
“I never stay in one place far too long”
What is your favorite color?
“depends on my mood, does black count?”
What is your favorite flower?
“moss, and black magic roses”
What is your favorite bird?
“black crows, raven a black crow”
Who are you favorite prose writers?
“Plat, Franz Kafka”
Who are your favorite poets?
“William Blake, Walk Whitman, Jim Morrison”
Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
“Odysseus, Marc Antony, Romeo”
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
“Aphrodite, Cleopatra, Juliet”
Who are you favorite composers?
“Neil Young”
Who are your favorite painters?
“Henry Darger, Basquiat, Edward Ruscha, Martin Kippenberger, Carry Kiurs, De Kooning, Warhol, John Baldessari”
Who are your heroes in real life
“people who live with integrity”
What is it you most dislike?
“the media”
What natural gift woul you most like to possess?
“concentration, being able the ability to concentrate”
How you like to die?
“in your arms”
What is your present state of mind?
“sarcastic”
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
“n/a wouldnt you like to know”
What is your motto?
“be curious, not judgmental -Whitman everything happens for a reason”
Your name or psuedo?
“MK”
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Freud wasn’t a poet.