Top 100 Quotes About Matt Groening
#1. God often gives nuts to toothless people. - Matt Groening
Ann Brashares
#2. [I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.
Neil Gaiman
#3. Once he gave her a Rothko book - an interesting choice, since like Elliott, Rothko also attended Lincoln High School in Portland (as had poet Gary Snyder and Simpsons creator Matt Groening). The
William Todd Schultz
#4. Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.
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#5. Ned, have you considered any of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same.
Reverend Lovejoy
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#6. I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'
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#7. Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.
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#8. Do my worst, eh? Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons.
Mr. Burns
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#9. Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?" Homer: "Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.
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#10. 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.
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#11. As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me.
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#12. When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!
(Homer Simpson)
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#13. Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.
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#14. English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.
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#15. 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.
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#16. Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
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#17. I have less to do with 'The Simpsons' every season, but I stick my nose in here and there. Basically, it's just trying to keep the characters consistent and making sure the show has a soul.
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#18. If at first you don't succeed - give it up. It isn't worth the pain.
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#19. Si vas a hacer trampa, hazla con todas tus fuerzas
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#20. One year later, I got beat up at a Neil Diamond concert by a guy named Scrunchie!
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#21. '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.
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#22. I think human beings probably resonate with audiences more than bunnies, but who knows?
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#23. With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.
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#24. Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.
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#25. It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.
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#26. Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beginning to end, and it's a work of genius. It's very simply drawn, but it has some really deep emotions that you don't expect in a silly-looking comic strip.
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#27. Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it?
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#28. One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.
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#29. We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.
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#30. I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals flaming.
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#31. How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?
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#32. One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.
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#33. People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.
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#34. Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back in the beginning, and a lot of really dark comedy had a really anti-sentimental take on life.
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#35. I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman.
Homer Simpson
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#36. On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.
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#37. But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
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#39. The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.
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#40. Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
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#41. I'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
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#42. When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.
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#43. I've found that child's play -stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy- was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.
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#44. Lisa, I apologize to you, I was wrong, I take it all back. Always be yourself. If you want to be sad, honey, be sad. We'll ride it out with you. And when you get finished feeling sad, we'll still be there. From now on, let me do the smiling for both of us.
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#45. But we all had an agreement to let each other get away with everything! That's Capitalism!
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#47. My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.'
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#48. I have to say that The Simpsons comes from a huge number of great writers headed by Al Jean, the show-runner, and the work that they do is really fantastic. It's a blast just to sit around with them in the writers' room and listen to all the filthy jokes that will never get on the air.
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#49. I pledge impertinence to the flag waving, of the unindicted co-conspirators of America, and to the republicans for which I can't stand, one abomination, underhanded fraud, indefensible, with Liberty and Justice.. Forget it.
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#50. For some reason, a lot of Hollywood big shots are curious to see how they'd be drawn with bulging eyes and no chin.
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#51. Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling 'Bart,' and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.
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#52. I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.
Homer Simpson
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#53. I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium.
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#54. I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.
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#55. With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was the absence of the parents. Half the strip was about who wasn't there. The parents were never in the picture.
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#56. You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.
Homer Simpson
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#57. We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so.
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#58. The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.
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#59. When DVDs finally disappear, I'm going to be sad. I'll miss the commentaries.
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#60. The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.
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#61. Stop thinking about fun and have it
Homer Simpson
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#62. The conundrum that I face on a daily basis is that I have two sons who have grown up watching 'The Simpsons,' so they know exactly what buttons to push. They know how Bart irritates Homer, and they use these lines against me to tell me that I'm not funny anymore.
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#63. Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
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#64. A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things
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#65. 'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and ... obsequious.
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#66. I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
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#67. When you're as important as I am, getting your feelings hurt by me is almost an honor.
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#68. I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam: one nacho, underpants with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.
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#69. I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.
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#70. This doesn't happen in America! Maybe Ohio, but not in America!
Homer Simpson
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#71. I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?
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#73. It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
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#74. Let's face it, all the good stuff happens after midnight.
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#75. If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.
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#76. To alcohol! The cause of ... and solution to ... all of life's problems
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#77. I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.
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#78. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments, soccer games, romances, best friends, location of friend's houses, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
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#79. Did you hear something?"
"No."
"Did I hear something?"
" ... I don't know ...
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#80. Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.
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#81. Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.
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#83. Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
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#84. 'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.
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#85. You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.
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#86. Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.
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#87. I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.
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#88. I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.
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#89. I personally like the idea of newspapers. It's a good format. You can read it in whatever order you want. You can glance at it. There is something about a single screen and scrolling through pages that just doesn't have the same appeal.
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#90. 'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.
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#91. 'The Simpsons' is an especially collaborative show.
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#92. You toyed with my heart, like it was a toy heart. (Lisa Simpson)
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#93. Oftentimes, what seems to be a street lunatic charging at me spouting gibberish turns out to be a devoted 'Simpsons' fan quoting their favorite line.
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#94. Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless.
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#95. You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.
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#96. I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.
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#97. Judging by his outlandish attire, he's some sort of free-thinking anarchist.
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#98. I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.
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#99. A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.
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