Valerie Cherish Answers the Proust Questionnaire
What is your current state of mind?Grateful. Yeah, in a state of “grate” right now.If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?Sometimes I care too much. And my shoe size. They always run out of a size 8. Too common.If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?Respectfully, I prefer to keep my loved ones—my husband, Mark Berman, and his daughter, Francesca, and her husband, Omar, and their two children, Shia and Ramses—out of the press.What do you consider your greatest achievement?My career. Followed my dream. Oh, and I’m still married! Ha, almost forgot that one.What is your most treasured possession?My husband—wait, can’t possess a person. My People’s Choice Award, because it’s from the people. No, my Emmy! My Emmy.What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?I’m going to need a minute.Where would you like to live?Right here and now. Spiritual, yeah.What is your favorite occupation?Dry cleaner…just kidding! Actress. I’ve never been a dry cleaner, so not a slam.What is your most marked characteristic?My red hair.What do you most value in your friends?Their friendship, y’know? Yeah.Who are your favorite writers?Oh boy. Can’t name one—love ’em all.Who is your favorite hero of fiction? Who are your heroes in real life?Mark Twain. That’s still safe, right?What are your favorite names?Oh, so many. Don’t care for Beatrice, though. Or Agnes. Or Henrietta.What is it that you most dislike?Anger.What is your motto?Be positive.How would you like to die?Much later.If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?I might be getting a little deep here, but I’d come back as a garment bag, so I could be filled with beautiful things. Then, sometimes empty. But then filled again with other beautiful things.
