Stoner: I've got a confession. If I could trade faces with anyone--and I would trade with most people--I would trade with you.
Paul Hogan: This creased old face? Really? Oh, you must have been reading the tabloids. I read there that I had had a face lift. Well, actually, what happened is I was talking to a journalist mate of mine, and he had written that I had had a face lift. Then, we talk, and he says, "Well, you don't look like you've had a face lift at all." That's right, I say. So, he writes that I've had a FAILED face lift. But no, I haven't had a face lift--don't care enough about it to bother.
Stoner: You have been very successful, on two continents at least. How does it feel to be part of the entertainment industry?
Hogan: I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.
Stoner: Lazy? You put together the Crocodile Dundee films, broke box office records in Australia and made a fortune around the world. I have trouble believing you're lazy.
Hogan: Well, I guess it's sort of a calculated "lazy." I figured that out first on TV in Australia. I was already past my youth when I did this joke guest spot on a TV show, and people seemed to enjoy it. So, I got the chance to do my own show, but I wasn't sure people would want me in their homes every week, so I wouldn't do the thirteen or twenty-six week deals they wanted me to do. Instead, I'd do a special every three or four weeks, and that seemed to work. Then I cut that commercial for Australian tourism that played all over America, so when I made Crocodile Dundee I had a kind of easy-going image over here. That worked--almost too well, since some people almost thought it was a documentary and I was just playing myself. But, I kept my old plan--not to be in front of people's faces too much. That's why I've only made five films in ten years. I'm glad you like my face, lack of face lift and all, because I don't want it to wear out its welcome.