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Quotes by Cartoonist
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
67
"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."
Life,
60
"Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly."
46
"Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design."
42
"Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say."
41
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
36
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."
34
"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."
32
"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."
31
"I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience."
31
"We seem to think we have some control over this planet."
31
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
30
"I don't want little kids reading my comics."
30
"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."
30
"Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow."
29
"In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids."
Kids,
28
"Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure."
27
"Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days."
26
"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night."
26
"I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation."
24
"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."
24
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."
23
"It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment."
23
"I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste."
22
"He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end."
20
"Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories."
20
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
20
"Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character."
19
"Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company."
19
"We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so."
18
"Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats."
18
"You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish."
18
"We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together."
18
"I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home."
18
"Maturity is only a short break in adolescence."
17
"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
17
"We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks."
16
"Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time."
16
"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"
16
"To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them."
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