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	Unknown Episode: Himself - Host: What is your favorite curseword? Robert Downey Jr.: Seven syllables: son of a cock-loving whore!
	Unknown Episode: James Lipton: You've said "'Home for the Holidays' was, for me, one of the most relaxed performances in the history of cinema." Robert Downey Jr.: Yeah. James Lipton: What was relaxing you? Robert Downey Jr.: [immediately] Black tar heroin. James Lipton: [taken aback] What? Robert Downey Jr.: [laughs; to audience] Do you see how sweet and innocent he is about this stuff? James Lipton: I'm from Michigan. I'm square.
	Season 12 / Episode 4: - Al Pacino James Lipton: What sound or noise do you hate? Michael J. Fox: When your nose whistles...
	Season 11 / Episode 14: - Colin Farrell James Lipton: In a way, I've been waiting all my life to ask this. George Carlin, what is your favorite curse word? George Carlin: [after consideration] Motherfucker.
	Season 11 / Episode 4: - George Carlin Host: In a way, I've been waiting all my life to ask this. George Carlin, what is your favorite curse word? George Carlin: [after consideration] Motherfucker.
	Season 10 / Episode 4: - Cate Blanchett Host: What's your least favorite word? Jude Law: Paparazzi.
	Season 10 / Episode 4: - Cate Blanchett Host: What's your favorite curseword? Jude Law: Bollocks!
	Season 8 / Episode 19: - Johnny Depp James Lipton: Being in love in France... Johnny Depp: Equals a baby...
	Season 8 / Episode 19: - Johnny Depp James Lipton: What is your favorite word? Johnny Depp: Why. James Lipton: Didn't that sound appropriate to you? It did to me. What is your least favorite word? Johnny Depp: No. James Lipton: What turns you on? Johnny Depp: Breathing. James Lipton: What turns you off? Johnny Depp: Not breathing. James Lipton: What is your sound or noise do you love? Johnny Depp: My daughter's voice. James Lipton: What is your sound or noise do you hate? Johnny Depp: Vacuum cleaner. James Lipton: What is your favorite curse word? Johnny Depp: Boy. This is a real opportunity here. I don't want to mess this up. I think the most expressive would be shit. Yeah. Shit works a lot. James Lipton: And it's just as good, maybe even better in French. Johnny Depp: Yeah, yeah. And it's used a lot. It's said more in French then anywhere else. James Lipton: Yes, it is. What profession, other than yours, would you like to attempt? Johnny Depp: Writing, I think. Writing. James Lipton: What profession would you absolutely not like to try? Johnny Depp: President of the United States. James Lipton: Johnny, if Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? Johnny Depp: Wow.
	Season 8 / Episode 19: - Johnny Depp James Lipton: Tell me first, please, about the name 'Depp.' Do you know its origin? Johnny Depp: No, I don't really know the origin, but I know what it means in German. James Lipton: What does it mean? Johnny Depp: [pause, grins] 'Idiot.'
	Season 8 / Episode 19: - Johnny Depp James Lipton: It's no secret to this audience that tonight we have the biggest crowd we've ever had here in nearly eight years... It was bedlam for a little while, people trying to get in. Johnny Depp: [smiles, embarrassed] I think there was some mistake. James Lipton: Not at all. Johnny Depp: Maybe a misspelling.
	Season 8 / Episode 19: - Johnny Depp Johnny Depp: [on 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'] I was playing Hunter, so I had to, you know, figure out a way to steal his soul. [chuckles] I lived in his basement, which we called 'the dungeon,' for a couple months. James Lipton: No wonder you came out Hunter Thompson! And shaved your head? Johnny Depp: Hunter shaved my head, in fact. James Lipton: Did he really? Johnny Depp: Yeah. James Lipton: The two of you looking in the mirror until it was right... Johnny Depp: I didn't look in the mirror at all! I was in mortal fear. Hunter had a mining light on his head [audience laughs] and we were in his kitchen, you know, and, uh, he shaved my head.
	Season 8 / Episode 19: - Johnny Depp Johnny Depp: Ed Wood is actually made up of three ingrediants. James Lipton: And they are? Johnny Depp: The blind optimism of Ronald Reagan, the enthusiasm of the Tin Man, and Casey Kasem. [audience laughs]
	Season 8 / Episode 12: - Ethan Hawke Host: What's your favorite curse word? Ethan Hawke: [enthusiastically] Motherfucker! You fucking motherfucker! Ethan Hawke: [to Lipton] I like the way it sounds.
	Season 7 / Episode 14: - Francis Ford Coppola Host: What's your favorite word? Robin Williams: Cloaca Host: What's your least favorite word? Robin Williams: Cunt Host: What turns you on? Robin Williams: My wife's laugh Host: What turns you off? Robin Williams: Violence towards children Host: What sound or noise do you love? Robin Williams: [Robin makes fart sound] Host: What sound or noise do you hate? Robin Williams: Screeching of breaks. It always implies something is gonna happen. Host: What's your favorite curse word? Robin Williams: Pussy Host: What profession other than yours would you like to attempt? Robin Williams: Neurologist or theoretical physicist. Those are the people I kinda admire. Host: What profession would you not like to participate in? Robin Williams: Bomb tester Host: If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? Robin Williams: They're seating the other front. Or just to hear there's laughter... to hear God go "Two Jews walk into a bar".
	Season 7 / Episode 14: - Francis Ford Coppola Host: What brought you from Chicago to Detroit? [in the meaning of WHY did you move from Chicago to Detroit] Robin Williams: A plane.
	Season 7 / Episode 14: - Francis Ford Coppola Robin Williams: So sad when you give prozac to a cat. It just sits in the corner going: "Me".
	Season 7 / Episode 14: - Francis Ford Coppola Robin Williams: My mother was a Christian Dior Scientist. She was very... she was really the kinda part of my whole comedy upbringing. Host: What about your dad? Robin Williams: Oh, very elegant man. Host: Very elegant? Robin Williams: Yeah, very kinda reserved, except after a couple of cocktails. He'd go, you know, very happy. Not like "Wo-hoo, look who's on the table!" No, he would: "What? Do you want a car?" I'm 5. "OK!"
	Season 7 / Episode 14: - Francis Ford Coppola Host: What's your middle name? Robin Williams: McLaurim. That's Irish. Host: It is Irish. Robin Williams: Ya, and then I'm also Welsh, which means every time so often I have to occupy myself.
	Season 6 / Episode 10: - Philip Seymour Hoffman James Lipton: Mr. Gielgud, American actors envy your impeccable diction. How did you acquire it? Kevin Spacey: [as John Gielgud] Oh, went to school, you know, trained for years and years. James Lipton: Marlon - [audience groans and laughs] English actors do *not* admire your diction. How did you acquire it? Could it, by any chance, have been a result of your training at the Actors' Studio? Kevin Spacey: [as Marlon Brando] Listen, I didn't learn tiddly-twat at the Actors' Studio. And frankly, I'm sick and tired of all you cats just livin' off my name forever, so leave me alone and bring me the Doritos.
	Season 6 / Episode 10: - Philip Seymour Hoffman James Lipton: Now, I understand you have conducted a long correspondence with Kevin Spacey, and that he approached you once, Ms. Hepburn, and I would like to know - what's that story? What do you write about...? Kevin Spacey: [as Katherine Hepburn] He's a stalker! He just won't leave me alone! James Lipton: Well, when he writes to you, what do you respond? Kevin Spacey: [as Katherine Hepburn] He writes letters and goes on and on about himself, and I just say 'good for you!'
	Season 1 / Episode 3: - Alec Baldwin Host: Plant tree or animal? Stephen Sondheim: Standard poodle.
	Unknown Episode: James Lipton: What is your least favorite word? Mark Wahlberg: Is "Marky Mark" one word?
	Unknown Episode: James Lipton: Homer, what is your full name? Dan Castellaneta: Homer J. Simpson. The J stands for Jay. James Lipton: What do you do at the Nuclear Power Plant? Dan Castellaneta: I am a safety inspector. I tell people to be safe. And safen up! James Lipton: Safen up? Dan Castellaneta: Safen up! James Lipton: Since you're still here, and Springfield is still here, I assume you have an umblemished record. Dan Castellaneta: Well... there's a few blemishes on it. James Lipton: Ever come close to a meltdown? Dan Castellaneta: Oh, a number of times! If that's what you mean by "blemishes".
	Unknown Episode: James Lipton: What is your favorite curse word? Jack Lemmon: Cocksucking motherfucker.
	Unknown Episode: James Lipton: The film Taxi Driver. In which, you spoke those immortal words... Robert De Niro: [uncomfortable] Well, you know... The usual.
	Unknown Episode: Martin Sheen: I love being Spanish as much as I love being Irish, and I *really* love being Irish.
	Unknown Episode: James Lipton: Would it have been too much trouble for you to go out and get a prop gun? Harry Shearer: [as Ranier Wolfcastle] I'm not the prop man. I'm the actor!
	Unknown Episode: Harrison Ford: You're much better-looking in person.
	Unknown Episode: James Lipton: What is your favourite word? Meryl Streep: I... well, y'know, I don't want to lie... James Lipton: Don't lie. Meryl Streep: Because I knew that this was coming and so I asked my daughter what her favourite word is and she's six and ever since she said her favourite word, which she said without hesitating, I can't think of anything else... James Lipton: Say it. Meryl Streep: Coconut milk.