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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."
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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've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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