- Hi, I'm Danny DeVito.
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This is the Wired Autocomplete Interview.
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Part two.
Do I remember part one?
No, first card.
What was Danny DeVito's first job?
I was like 14 years old
little kid got my working papers in Asbury park.
I put the little kids on the kitty rides.
You know, like the rides went around in circles
like a car or a boat or a what?
A fire engine.
They were literally gave me the ticket
and I pushed a button.
And then it would go around, slow
on a board walk and I'd say, ring the bell, ring the bell
on the fire engine, steer, the wheels, steer the wheel.
You know what I mean?
And the ride would end and I'd take 'em off.
That was my first job.
14 years old.
What was Danny DeVito?
Big break.
I was in Coo Coo's Nest, but everybody thought
I was an inmate
but Taxi was my big break.
That was the big one 1978.
Before many of you were born.
- [Producer] You can throw the paper away.
- These papers.
Ah, okay.
They're gone.
Okay.
What is Danny DeVito's accent?
Jersey.
Very Jersey, south Jersey.
I was born in, it's kind of like a Philly, Baltimore thingy
but it's Jersey and it's gets a little New York.
My father was from Brooklyn, so I got a little bit of that.
Philly is very what I do on
so he's sunny is a little bit more.
We exaggerate it.
- [Producer] Is it Taylor Ham or Pork Roll?
- Oh, Taylor ham, Taylor ham
on a hard roll with some mustard and lettuce.
Oh man.
I could, I want one now.
What characters does Danny DeVito voice?
Well, right now I'm in Little Demon
and I voice Satan, a very nice guy.
Okay, well to some,
what is Danny DeVito like in real life?
Hmm?
You tell me, I don't know.
You're looking at me.
Are you looking at me?
What am I like in real life?
I don't know.
Next board.
Here we go.
Well, this is going well.
Is Danny DeVito a method actor?
Well, I have my method.
Yes.
Did I ever work at the actor studio?
I did a couple things there.
Once I subscribe to like the Constantine Stanislavski
pre sips
but I do like Stella Adler.
I do like Lee Strasberg, but it's different.
You know, you take a little bit from each one.
Is Danny DeVito a grandfather?
No.
Not yet.
I love kids and I can't wait because I am gonna take them.
[Danny DeVito laughing]
Wait. Okay.
Let's see.
Is Danny DeVito related to Arnold?
Yes, Arnold Schwarzenegger he's my little brother.
Is that who he meant?
Oh, Arnold couldn't fit in on the line.
Schwarzenegger right.
Would've gave it away.
Arnold, what Palmer?
We get along really well.
He is really cool.
And we have a lot of fun and we can't wait
to work together again.
Is Danny DeVito from Philadelphia.
No, I'm from New Jersey, Asbury Park, New Jersey
which is where Bruce Springsteen claims to be from.
But he's actually from Freehold.
But when he was doing his first album, he wanted to call.
He couldn't call it greetings from Freehold.
So he called it greetings from Asbury Park.
I love Bruce.
Is Danny DeVito a good penguin.
Well, you gotta tell me, am I the good penguin?
Come on.
It's no contest.
So I remember it like it was yesterday.
I used to get up five o'clock in the morning to
go V Neil master full.
She was a incredible makeup artist.
She would stand there with like a pot of glue.
The pot of glue.
The key thing is it had to be cold in order to work.
And she would come over and she would take this
big fat brush
freezing cold glue and put it right, right there.
Then she put the nose on.
And once she did that and patted it down
and powdered it, piece of cake, I was in for the whole day.
Didn't bother me.
Didn't even know I had it on.
I acted like the penguin.
Then soon as the nose went on.
So beware.
How did Danny DeVito become an actor?
My sister had a beauty parlor
and she gave me a job in the beauty parlor,
can you imagine me?
In the beauty parlor, she sent me
to school and went to become a hairdresser
and then she wanted to get into makeup.
So she sent me to New York to go to makeup school.
Aha.
The only thing is at that makeup school
it was also a drama department.
I took a class and I got hooked on it.
I just didn't want to do anything else.
Except become an actor.
How old was Danny DeVito?
When?
Couple minutes ago?
No, now?
Then 20.
How old was Danny DeVito?
Why
You said sticking to the old thing?
Okay.
I'm old.
All right, wait, how old was Danny DeVito?
Stoned.
Baby, you don't wanna see me stoned?
Oh, I pull wrong.
Oh, I didn't pull the thing.
The tab.
How old was Danny Vito in taxi?
I had to been around 30 something, 34, 33, 34 years old.
I would bet.
How old is Danny DeVito in Romance in the Stone?
Tiny bit older.
I did Taxi for five years than I did Romance and the Stone
and Romance in the Stone is like in the eighties.
So you figure it out.
Google me.
Will Danny DeVito be
in the live action Hercules?
I am the live action Hercules.
What are you talking about?
Philip Tatis, if they don't put me in
that they don't have a hair on their ass.
Okay.
Next card, next card and thank God.
There's two cameras.
You can always cut.
You know what I'm saying?
When did Danny DeVito join Always Sunny?
I'm not sure of the year, but I think it was 16 years ago.
Maybe 17 years ago.
Why did Danny DeVito make Matilda?
Well, my kids brought the book to me.
They, as they were reading it, the chapter book written
by Roald Dahl and I just loved it, but I said
if I'm gonna make another movie, I gotta make Matilda.
'Cause it was for every kid.
I imagine I thought it was and it certainly has been.
I think everybody really dug it.
Where is Danny DeVito?
What?
My Hollywood star.
I got great real estate.
If you go to grounds Chinese theater where the
Chinese theater
as they call it and go across the street, there's my star.
I don't know who I'm next
to because I'm a self-centered actor.
You know how many actors it takes to screw
in a light bulb, one, he holds
onto the light bulb and the world revolves around him.
Where to buy Danny DeVito's limoncello?
I'm not sure, where you can get it now.
I mean, I had a lot of fun making it, doing it and
I still think I have a couple bottles laying in my house.
Did Danny DeVito own a restaurant?
I lent my name to a restaurant
in Miami with the hopes that it would be successful.
And it became a lot of, was a headache.
And so I took my name off the restaurant.
And that was that I had enough of that.
Was Danny DeVito on SNL.
Yes, I was many times I hosted it.
Five times.
I have a clock that they gave me to prove it.
I am a member of the five timer club
and we had a great time and I loved it.
Was Danny DeVito in Friends?
Yes, I played officer Goodbody in Friends
and I stripped kind of, and I had a great time doing that.
Was Danny DeVito in who?
Harry Potter?
No, no, no.
I wasn't in Harry Potter.
I don't think, that was Richard Griffiths was
in Harry Potter.
Hmm.
If you ever see Withnail and I, he was in that too.
Oh, Richard really terrific actor.
Was Danny DeVito in the Seinfeld?
No, I was never in Seinfeld.
- [Producer] Were you initially going to be in Seinfeld?
- No, I wasn't.
I wasn't ever gonna be in Seinfeld.
I think that that Jason Alexander
and I have a similar look that may be why
people think, you know, that I was in that.
Okay, here we go.
Let's see.
Last one, Danny DeVito, Danny DeVito and Aubrey Plaza.
Yes, is so much fun.
She plays my wife, the woman I love
in Little Demon and she is the mother of my demon child.
And she's a great actress.
And she's so much fun to work
with Danny DeVito, body pillow.
Well, you can, you know, you probably could find one.
I think you can find a body pillow
made in the shape of Danny DeVito.
If you wanna hang out with it, you have my blessing.
You know, production company,
Jersey films made lots of movies.
Lot of the movies that I've directed
and things that I've been in plus Pulp Fiction
and Erin Brockovich and lots of things, Matilda.
And we now co-producing a show on FXX called Little Demon.
This is my first animation.
And it was really, really fun.
It's very, very interesting learning.
It took us a few years to do it.
I've been in animated movies before
as an actor and has voiced them, but I've never produced one
and know Lucy and I and Jake, my son
who's also a part of Little Demon
with Aubrey and also this guy, Dan Harmon, who does that?
Rick and Morty show.
He's also a producer.
Danny DeVito when he was young.
Ah, yes.
When I was young, what was I doing?
I was just hanging out, you know, living in Jersey
eating pizza, subs, sandwiches.
Danny DeVito urologist.
Oh yeah.
I did the thing
with Mikey D, I played Michael Douglas's urologist
in the Kaminski method
Mikey and I go back really long time.
And you heard about the lawsuit, right?
I played his, you know, proctologist and we're in the middle
of a lawsuit now because I'm trying to get my watch back.
Terrible joke.
Okay, anyway, the questions are great.
And I'm really, especially when you asked me
about Little Demon is on FXX.
It's a 10 o'clock show.
So keep the little ones away.
Thanks for watching, peace.