From 15 years ago on Facebook. I was still in California and Trump was just a useless New York wanker.
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 my chance. (with a couple of minor additions in italics)
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 Jacques Chirac called “capitalisme sauvage.”
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.
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?
Dogs that won’t stop barking. And vacuum cleaners being run by anyone except me
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. Of course it was too late at age 59 and it’s definitely too late 15 years later.
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?” More true in 2009 than now.
