As an artistic exercise to help "flesh out" my characters, I decided to ask each of my dolls the questions from James Lipton's questionnaire that he asks at the end of every episode of Inside The Actor's Studio. As I found out, that questionnaire is a condensed version of Marcel Proust's. So I made my own questionnaire, based upon Proust's.

Here it is, along with all of my doll's answers. Go to My albums: School Pictures to see photos of each doll.

 

1What is your favorite word?

2What is your least favorite word?

3What turns you on?

4What turns you off?

5What is your favorite curse word?

6What sound do you love?

7What sound do you hate?

8What is your favorite color?

9What is your favorite animal?

10What is your ideal place to live?

11Who is your favorite musician?

12Who is your favorite artist?

13What historical figure would you most like to meet?

14What is your ideal profession?

15What profession would you least like to have?

16What profession other than your own would you like to try?

17What is your favorite book?

18What book do you read while sick in bed?

19What is your favorite film?

20What film do you watch while sick in bed?

21What is your favorite flower?

22If there is a god, what would most like to hear him say when you reach the pearly gates?

 

Mary Beth Jennings' answers:

1What is your favorite word?

Underfoot

2What is your least favorite word?

I don't have one, "Words are not for cowards."

3What turns you on?

Talent.

4What turns you off?

Arrogance.

5What is your favorite curse word?

Bugger!

6What sound do you love?

Any newborn animal.

7What sound do you hate?

The death scream of a rabbit. It is the only sound they make their entire lives.

8What is your favorite color?

Blue.

9What is your favorite animal?

Alaskan Grey Wolves

10What is your ideal place to live?

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

11Who is your favorite musician?

Leonard Cohen.

12Who is your favorite artist?

Brian Froud.

13What historical figure would you most like to meet?

Frida Kahlo.

14What is your ideal profession?

Portrait artist or illustrator.

15What profession would you least like to have?

Anything to do with sewage. Or bugs. Or space.

16What profession other than your own would you like to try?

Author

17What is your favorite book?

Harry Potter, J,K. Rowling

18What book do you read while sick in bed?

The Princess Bride, William Goldman

19What is your favorite film?

To Kill A Mockingbird

20What film do you watch while sick in bed?

Funnyface

21What is your favorite flower?

Yellow roses tinged in pink.

22If there is a god, what would most like to hear him say when you reach the pearly gates?

Come on in, sorry about the mess.

 

Andrea Hallett's answers:

1What is your favorite word?

Sonorous.

2What is your least favorite word?

Maggot

3What turns you on?

Honesty

4What turns you off?

Passive aggression

5What is your favorite curse word?

Shhht is satisfying yet non-offensive.

6What sound do you love?

My husband, Viktor's voice.

7What sound do you hate?

Maggots squirming. Eeugh!

8What is your favorite color?

Green.

9What is your favorite animal?

White Swans

10What is your ideal place to live?

The south of France.

11Who is your favorite musician?

Saint-Saens... or Garbage. Tough to pick!

12Who is your favorite artist?

Vincent Van Gogh

13What historical figure would you most like to meet?

Stradivarius

14What is your ideal profession?

Solo violinist

15What profession would you least like to have?

Anything with maggots

16What profession other than your own would you like to try?

Music teacher

17What is your favorite book?

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

18What book do you read while sick in bed?

Hans Christian Andersen's Complete Fairy Tales

19What is your favorite film?

The Red Violin

20What film do you watch while sick in bed?

Pride And Prejudice - the Garson/Olivier version.

21What is your favorite flower?

Lilies

22If there is a god, what would most like to hear him say when you reach the pearly gates?

Your daddy has been waiting for you, and here he is.

 

Viktor Krelnikov

1What is your favorite word?

Andrea

2What is your least favorite word?

Any sort of racial slur.

3What turns you on?

Red-headed women

4What turns you off?

Ignorance

5What is your favorite curse word?

Bloody

6What sound do you love?

A solo violin

7What sound do you hate?

A badly tuned one

8What is your favorite color?

White

9What is your favorite animal?

Lions

10What is your ideal place to live?

An island off the coast of Greece.

11Who is your favorite musician?

My wife, Andrea, obviously.

12Who is your favorite artist?

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

13What historical figure would you most like to meet?

Beethoven

14What is your ideal profession?

Vagabond

15What profession would you least like to have?

Beaurocrat

16What profession other than your own would you like to try?

Something in the 007 department.

17What is your favorite book?

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

18What book do you read while sick in bed?

Anything by Dashiell Hammett

19What is your favorite film?

Greta Garbo's Anna Karenina

20What film do you watch while sick in bed?

Gilda, with Rita Hayworth

21What is your favorite flower?

Red roses

22If there is a god, what would most like to hear him say when you reach the pearly gates?

I would prefer silence. I'm used to it.

 

Leiloni Chan's answers:

1What is your favorite word?

Luna

2What is your least favorite word?

B---

3What turns you on?

The ocean

4What turns you off?

Flourescent lighting

5What is your favorite curse word?

Sh--

6What sound do you love?

Jet engines

7What sound do you hate?

Dial-up

8What is your favorite color?

Red

9What is your favorite animal?

Horses

10What is your ideal place to live?

Hawa'ii

11Who is your favorite musician?

The Sex Pistols

12Who is your favorite artist?

Gauguin

13What historical figure would you most like to meet?

Gertrude Stein

14What is your ideal profession?

Pianist

15What profession would you least like to have?

Homicide cop

16What profession other than your own would you like to try?

Concert Pianist

17What is your favorite book?

Life of Chopin - Franz Liszt

18What book do you read while sick in bed?

The Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell

19What is your favorite film?

The Sleeping Dictionary

20What film do you watch while sick in bed?

Muppet Treasure Island

21What is your favorite flower?

Hibiscus

22If there is a god, what would most like to hear him say when you reach the pearly gates?

Hang Ten!

 

Celeste Peridot's answers:

1What is your favorite word?

Soliloquy

2What is your least favorite word?

Bigot

3What turns you on?

Light

4What turns you off?

Those guys that count down to a female celebrity's 18th birthday. (gag)

5What is your favorite curse word?

Bloody bugger!

6What sound do you love?

Rain

7What sound do you hate?

Garbage dispose-all

8What is your favorite color?

Sea-foam green

9What is your favorite animal?

Tabby cats - nice big fat ones

10What is your ideal place to live?

New Zealand

11Who is your favorite musician?

Damien Rice

12Who is your favorite artist?

Boticelli

13What historical figure would you most like to meet?

Sarah Bernhardt

14What is your ideal profession?

Acting

15What profession would you least like to have?

Working in a cubicle

16What profession other than your own would you like to try?

Ballet dancing

17What is your favorite book?

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

18What book do you read while sick in bed?

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis

19What is your favorite film?

Across the Universe

20What film do you watch while sick in bed?

Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet

21What is your favorite flower?

Hydrangeas. Pink ones.

22If there is a god, what would most like to hear him say when you reach the pearly gates?

You're on in five minutes.

 

Jeremy (Crow) Greene's answers:

1What is your favorite word?

Grow

2What is your least favorite word?

Anything that is difficult to spell. Bad spellers of the world, untie!

3What turns you on?

Perfectly manicured female hands.

4What turns you off?

French manicures, overly long fingernails.

5What is your favorite curse word?

Sh--

6What sound do you love?

My sister cursing at her computer.

7What sound do you hate?

My birth mother's voice.

8What is your favorite color?

Purple

9What is your favorite animal?

Crows

10What is your ideal place to live?

Japan

11Who is your favorite musician?

Queen! We are the champions... of the wooooorld!

12Who is your favorite artist?

Alan Lee

13What historical figure would you most like to meet?

Arthur Rimbaud.... Ah, hell, Bruce Lee.

14What is your ideal profession?

"I would like to be a happy peasant......"

15What profession would you least like to have?

Proctologist.

16What profession other than your own would you like to try?

Stunt co-ordinator, Or pyro guy.

17What is your favorite book?

The Phantom of the Opera- Gaston Leroux

18What book do you read while sick in bed?

Death and the Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman

19What is your favorite film?

The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

20What film do you watch while sick in bed?

A Bruce Lee Marathon

21What is your favorite flower?

Violets

22If there is a god, what would most like to hear him say when you reach the pearly gates?

Luke, I am your father.

 

Mariposa Greene's answers:

1What is your favorite word?

Clutch - it just sounds dirty.

2What is your least favorite word?

Clutch - it just sounds dirty.

3What turns you on?

Hot little asian guys.

4What turns you off?

Frat boys

5What is your favorite curse word?

Clutch Pig! - it just sounds dirty.

6What sound do you love?

Farts are always funny.

7What sound do you hate?

Squealing tires followed by a bang.

8What is your favorite color?

Black

9What is your favorite animal?

black cats

10What is your ideal place to live?

New Orleans

11Who is your favorite musician?

Ben Moody

12Who is your favorite artist?

Edward Gorey

13What historical figure would you most like to meet?

Bram Stoker

14What is your ideal profession?

Jewelry design

15What profession would you least like to have?

I would hate to be an Entymologist.

16What profession other than your own would you like to try?

Jewelry appraising for an auction house.

17What is your favorite book?

Interview With A Vampire by Anne Rice

18What book do you read while sick in bed?

Twilight

19What is your favorite film?

Interview With a Vampire

20What film do you watch while sick in bed?

Twilight

21What is your favorite flower?

Black roses

22If there is a god, what would most like to hear him say when you reach the pearly gates?

Ignore the little man behind the green curtain!

 

Natasha Ilosovitch's answers:

1What is your favorite word?

Xenophobia

2What is your least favorite word?

frog

3What turns you on?

A good beat.

4What turns you off?

Xenophobia

5What is your favorite curse word?

You putz!

6What sound do you love?

Clapping

7What sound do you hate?

Silence, with intermittent coughs.

8What is your favorite color?

Peach

9What is your favorite animal?

Deer

10What is your ideal place to live?

Broadway!

11Who is your favorite musician?

Cole Porter

12Who is your favorite artist?

Gustav Klimt

13What historical figure would you most like to meet?

Cole Porter

14What is your ideal profession?

Broadway superstar.

15What profession would you least like to have?

Prison Janitor

16What profession other than your own would you like to try?

I'd like to be in the Peace Corps

17What is your favorite book?

Briar Rose - Jane Yolen

18What book do you read while sick in bed?

The Princess Bride - William Goldman

19What is your favorite film?

Doctor Zhivago

20What film do you watch while sick in bed?

The Phantom of the Opera.... So bad, yet so good!

21What is your favorite flower?

Blue Morning Glories

22If there is a god, what would most like to hear him say when you reach the pearly gates?

I forgive you your sins, and relieve you of your doubts.

 

Brooke Aoyagi

1What is your favorite word?

Pond

2What is your least favorite word?

Jap

3What turns you on?

Nature

4What turns you off?

Bottled water

5What is your favorite curse word?

M-----F-----!

6What sound do you love?

The shakuhachi flute

7What sound do you hate?

Japanese Opera--- It really does sound like cats mating!

8What is your favorite color?

Yellow

9What is your favorite animal?

Cranes

10What is your ideal place to live?

Connecticut - near Walden's pond

11Who is your favorite musician?

Puccini - I know it's a stereotype, and I don't care!

12Who is your favorite artist?

Claude Monet

13What historical figure would you most like to meet?

Issa

14What is your ideal profession?

Landscaping architect

15What profession would you least like to have?

Working on Staten Island

16What profession other than your own would you like to try?

Flautist

17What is your favorite book?

The Tales of Genji

18What book do you read while sick in bed?

Memoirs of a Geisha

19What is your favorite film?

Kwaidan

20What film do you watch while sick in bed?

Little Women - with Gabriel Byrne!

21What is your favorite flower?

Water lilies

22If there is a god, what would most like to hear him say when you reach the pearly gates?

You are gong to be re-incarnated as an ornamental cherry tree.