David Sedaris
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You can kind of hypnotize.
A confident person can hypnotize the people around him or at least can get them to listen, you know?
And I love the combination of somebody who's just a horrible person but just brimming with confidence and just certain that they're right in all situations.
I mean, my dad was like that.
Never, never, ever showed any doubt in regard to anything.
And, you know, I didn't agree with him, and I didn't want to be him, but it made him a good character.
Was the Pope a good character?
Speaking of someone in power who you've listened to speak?
I don't know, because I don't...
I was invited to Rome to meet the Pope, right?
The Pope that died last year.
But I didn't ever follow him.
I'm not religious and I'm not Catholic and I don't know what his views were.
I don't know.
I mean, I just shook his hand.
It took two seconds.
He wasn't compelling to me.
He didn't command the room.