Simpsons Mr X Quotes

#1. '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.

Matt Groening

#2. I don't like that The Simpsons are spokespeople for Burger King and MasterCard and Butterfinger. In the first Gulf War, I was really upset that the Simpsons characters were being drawn on tanks and bombs. But those are things that I don't control.

George Meyer

#3. Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

Jonny Greenwood

#4. The strong must protect the sweet.

Homer

#5. I've always just loved drawing and loved cartoons. Growing up, I loved Disney films, I loved The Simpsons, and I was a big fan of the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes and the way that they would have weird fantasy and then down-to-earth funny character comedy.

Alex Hirsch

#6. I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.

Matt Groening

#7. 'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.

Matt Groening

#8. 'The Simpsons' is an especially collaborative show.

Matt Groening

#9. America needs to be a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons.

George H. W. Bush

#10. 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.

Matt Groening

#11. 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

#12. You're like Christopher Columbus. You discovered something millions of people did before you.

Lisa Simpson

#13. Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

Anthony Bourdain

#14. We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family. To make them more like The Waltons and less like The Simpsons.

George H. W. Bush

#15. I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.

Jerry Lewis

#16. After 'Nikki' and 'Steve Harvey,' I had written on a show called 'The Oblongs,' which was pretty well respected and had a lot of 'Simpsons' writers on it. So I was a TV writer with an interesting voice at that moment.

Jill Soloway

#17. 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.

Matt Groening

#18. You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.
Homer Simpson

Matt Groening

#19. 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.

Matt Groening

#20. 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

Sam Simon

#21. 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.

Matt Groening

#22. Maybe he talks through one of those devices. Like that scientist bloke. The one on The Simpsons.

Jojo Moyes

#23. I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.
Homer Simpson

Matt Groening

#24. I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Matt Groening

#25. I grew up - for a while, the only show I could watch if I hadn't finished my homework was 'The Simpsons,' because I think my parents saw that there was some real-life lessons to take from that.

Tyler Ritter

#26. I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well.

Matt Smith

#27. I skipped out of the Fox lot, threw my Keds back on, resisted the temptation to go over to the Simpsons building and take selfies with the Bart Simpson topiary,

Mindy Kaling

#28. This doesn't happen in America! Maybe Ohio, but not in America!
Homer Simpson

Matt Groening

#29. With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.

Sam Simon

#30. Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs.

Homer