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"I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has."
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"I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement."

"I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that."

"Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back."

"I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it's all a little lower."

"I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years."

"There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago."

"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."

"This is my third ABC show over the last four years, so we were afraid that nobody would find it. ABC was really struggling and so we just weren't very confident that it would find an audience."
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"It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself."

"After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that."

"I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do."

"The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity."

"Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves."

"I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing."

"It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character."
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