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"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."
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"It's an acting job - acting natural."
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"Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene."
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"When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma."
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"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."
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"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."
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"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it."
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"Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning."
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"Acting is a matter of giving away secrets."
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"And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."
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"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."
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"The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well."
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"Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them."
Wife
"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
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"Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy."
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"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."
People
"The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people."
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"There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do."
Writer
"It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up."
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"I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do."
People
"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."
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