I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.
I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.
At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'
I grew up in church, so every time I say certain words, I'm like, 'I'm going to get in trouble.'
I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly.
I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.
In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.
For every profanity, there's a story behind it. People should go beyond my cussing.
I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter... or anybody else's wife.