Futurama Quotes

#1. I watch the weirdest things. I watch old episodes of 'Golden Girls' because my mom watches it, so I grew up watching that. Sometimes I watch reruns of 'Futurama,' which is a cartoon and not based in the real world at all.

Matthew Moy

#2. With 'Futurama,' I wanted to do unrequited love, and David Cohen agreed, and although our original plan was never to have Fry and Leela get together, we finally just said, 'You can only string the fans along so far.'

Matt Groening

#3. 'The Simpsons' was about children and married parents; 'Futurama' is about people in between; they're growing up and haven't settled down. Every other cartoon show seemed to be, you know, dumb dad, bratty kids.

Matt Groening

#4. We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.'

Matt Groening

#5. I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.

Matt Groening

#6. I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.

Tatiana Maslany

#7. In 'Futurama,' the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.

Matt Groening

#8. The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.

Matt Groening

#9. I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

Matt Groening

#10. 'Futurama' was a big deal. People had already started to hear about me a little bit here and there, but that was the first series I booked to be a regular on.

John DiMaggio

#11. With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an animated science fiction show set in the future. And one of the reasons why it's not, I learned, is that it's really, really difficult.

Matt Groening

#12. The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on 'The Simpsons' and 'Futurama' is 'How do you continue to surprise the audience, but make them good surprises?' Not every surprise is good, but you want to continue jolting people.

Matt Groening

#13. 'The Simpsons' basically - and 'Futurama' - are really smart shows. They're kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you're paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated.

Matt Groening

#14. Sometimes when you do voices next to each other, especially when you're first starting out, they tend to bleed into each other. Working on a show like 'Futurama,' we do multiple characters there, but we've been doing it for a while, so the voices are really well-defined in our heads.

Phil LaMarr

#15. I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.

Billy West

#16. I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency.

Tatiana Maslany

#17. [I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.

Neil Gaiman

#18. There's a certain missing feeling, a void out there that I'm more than happy to fill. Without criticizing what's out there now, I'm just going to do El DeBarge.

El DeBarge

#19. Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!

Matt Groening

#20. You watched it! You can't unwatch it!

Matt Groening

#21. America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

Davy Jones

#22. When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

Matt Groening

#23. Create your own path. Cultivate it. It'll take time. It doesn't happen overnight. I was an actor for many years before I got behind the camera.

Matthew Bonifacio

#24. I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.

Lexa Doig

#25. Man, God really does love medics.

Mark Bowden

#26. I thought unicorns were more . . . Fluffy.

Terry Pratchett

#27. If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?

Simone De Beauvoir

#28. It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

#29. One year later, I got beat up at a Neil Diamond concert by a guy named Scrunchie!

Matt Groening