Ten basic questions, 10 easy answers

I found this from 16 years ago as one of my Facebook notes. Thought it would be interesting to poist it and see if anyone else would give it a try.

Ten Good Questions

Taken from “Inside the Actors’ Studio”, this is the 10-question quiz that closes every interview on the show. Anyone who has watched the show finds him or herself answering these questions anyway, so here’s your chance.

1. What is your favorite word?

It would have to be “love,” which can mean so much (“I love you”) or so little (“I love pancakes”) taken in exactly the same context. One might be willing to die for the person they love, yet not walk a block out of their way for pancakes.

2. What is your least favorite word?

A tough call here, and I’m going to cheat a little with a hyphenated word — “free-market,” when used to glorify what former French President Jacques Chirac called “capitalisme sauvage.” I don’t really need to translate.

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally

Both spiritually and emotionally, the amazingly alert, intelligent look in my 6-month-old granddaughter’s eyes. She’s going on 17 now and still a joy.

4. What turns you off creatively, spiritually or emotionally?

People who do nothing more than parrot the words of someone else. For lack of a better word, and perhaps to make the point, call them “Dittoheads.”

5. What sound or noise do you love?

The sound of a waterfall.

6. What sound or noise do you hate?

A vacuum cleaner if I’m not the one using it.

7. What is your favorite curse word?

Sadly on my part, the “f” word. Call it freakin’, frickin’ or whatever you want, it’s one of the few words that can be noun, verb, gerund, whatever. I believe Lenny Bruce was the one who said, “Shouldn’t ‘f**k you’ be something you respond to by saying ‘Thank you?'”

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

Politics.

9. What profession would you not like to do?

Anything involving waiting on people.

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

“What took you so long?”