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Matt Groening Quotes

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: cartoonist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 15, 1954

Topics

Funny Me Writing New Now Watching

My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.

Father Child Me Tough Big Tough Guy

I always eat before I go into a training session.

Training Go Always Eat Before

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

Michael Ironside

Art College Painting Die Create Got

I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in 'Beige Swan.' I'm going to be the lead, but I don't dance. I just do a lot of sitting down. It's too tiring to get up and dance around. That should be coming out in 20-never.

Dance Down Sitting Lead Out Swan

Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.

I Am Influence Way Miles Mine Major

I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, doesn't have ulcers or booze problems or an anxiety complex. He doesn't listen to operas, nor does he have an oddball hobby such as making model airplanes.

Problems Anxiety Hobby Create Crime

I want to be always actor.

Want Actor Always

When I saw houses in Palmdale going for $500K, I knew something was wrong. If you got foreclosed, I don't feel sorry for you!

Sorry Feel You Wrong Going Saw

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Thinking Doing You Achieve Want

People forget, most of the times we audition with people who aren't necessarily actors. So it doesn't matter who or what's in front of you: you still have to have the same realism and invested emotions.

People You Emotions Forget Matter

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

Michael Morpurgo

Wish You Know Now Actor Become

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

People Make Underworld Takes

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