The Post’s Steve Serby sat down at Shea with the effervescent Mets lefty who is 6-3 with a 2.69 ERA:

Q: Would you pay to watch Oliver Perez pitch?

A: Yeah. I love how I pitch (smiles).

Q: Paul Lo Duca says you’ll pitch a no-hitter.

A: I don’t want to pitch one, I want to pitch a lot (chuckles).

Q: No Met has ever pitched a no-hitter.

A: Somebody’s gonna be (the first).

Q: Do you think you’re intimidating on the mound?

A: I’m trying to be. Sometimes I feel it. Like all this season, I feel it. I feel comfortable. Before, when you saw somebody look comfortable in the batter’s box, I was a little nervous.

Q: And you think you make batters nervous now?

A: I don’t know, I want it (smiles).

Q: You want them to be afraid of you?

A: Yeah.

Q: You used to think too much about strikeouts?

A: Now the more important thing is (to) go deeper in the game, because you keep your team in the game.

Q: How long have you been jumping over the base line?

A: When I was a little kid. Before the game they paint the lines, and they say “don’t touch the line” because you’ll erase it. That’s why I was jumping.

Q: Some players from other teams think you’re a hot dog.

A: What is a hot dog?

Q: Showoff.

A: I never try to embarrass anybody . . . never.

Q: In Pittsburgh, fans wore sombreros when you pitched. Would you like to see Met fans wear sombreros?

A: No, I like better the big crowd. That feels good, to feel more energy.

Q: You started Games 4 and 7 of the NLCS last year.

A: That’s the first time I pitched in postseason in the United States. It felt good, but when I’m on the mound I’m thinking like “this is a normal game.”

Q: Can this team go to the World Series?

A: We can win the World Series.

Q: Pitchers you enjoy watching?

A: Randy Johnson. I like how he pitches . . . aggressive, he’s not scared of anybody. He looks mean on the mound and, for me, this is one of the best.

Q: What was it like pitching in Yankee Stadium against Randy Johnson?

A: I felt nervous and excited because it was my first time I was in Yankee Stadium pitching against Randy.

Q: Do you enjoy pitching in New York?

A: I love pitching anywhere.

Q: Was Fernando Valenzuela someone you admired?

A: When you play baseball in Mexico, like Little League somewhere, that’s the top name in Mexico. He’s the best pitcher in Mexico.

Q: Did you watch him as a little boy?

A: Sometimes. I know him a little bit and sometimes I talk with him. He just told me pitch like how you pitch and everything’s gonna be good.

Q: What about Mexican heroes Oscar De La Hoya and Julio Cesar Chavez?

A: More Chavez because he lives in the same town I live. Like two blocks from my house.

Q: How much fun was it pitching for Mexico in the World Baseball Classic?

A: That’s one of my best moments, to play for your country.

Q: When the Padres traded you to the Pirates, you still asked Bruce Bochy if you could start that night’s game.

A: Yeah (chuckles), he called me to his room, he told me like, “We traded you to the Pirates. The only problem, I don’t have a pitcher for today.” I said, “Give me the ball, I pitch (smiles).”

Q: You played with Kris Benson. What did you think of Anna Benson?

A: I don’t meet her. I don’t see her.

Q: There was a time with the Pirates when you were quoted as saying, “I put too much pressure on myself.”

A: Yeah, because I was trying to do too much. I was thinking about the next hitter, about the last pitch . . .

Q: Most embarrassing moment?

A: I’m not sure. Pass that one.

Q: I thought you would say the time you kicked that laundry cart in St. Louis and broke your toe.

A: Maybe that one (smiles). I was angry that night, that day. A lot of people punch something. I just kicked the head on the basket.

Q: How come you’re such a good hitter?

A: I just try to make contact.

Q: You like to hit?

A: Yeah, yeah, I love it.

Q: Something your parents gave you as a child?

A: A glove.

Q: How old were you?

A: I was like six years old.

Q: Do you go to Manhattan?

A: Sometimes.

Q: What do you like about it?

A: All the lights . . . Times Square.

Q: Three dinner guests?

A: God; my father; my mom.

Q: Best dresser on the Mets?

A: (Carlos) Beltran.

Q: Hobbies?

A: I just go to see movies and walk to the mall. When I’m offseason, I play pool, play bowling, anything.

Q: John Maine told me to tell you: “Don’t try to teach anybody to speak Spanish.” Did you try to teach him Spanish?

A: (Smiles) Sometimes. Some words. We always have fun, Maine and me, because sometimes he tries to speak Spanish and sometimes I speak bad English and he tells me, “You don’t speak English, you have bad English.”

Q: Favorite actor?

A: Tom Cruise.

Q: Favorite actress?

A: Jennifer Lopez.

Q: Favorite meal?

A: Steak.