Yeardley Smith Quotes
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
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Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.
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Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.
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Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!.
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It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.
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It's naive to think you can change a person--except maybe that boy who works in the library.
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I've always been able to make a living, a pretty decent one. The progress has always been steady, if not spectacular. Now when I audition, I go up against people like Juliette Lewis and Joan Cusack, and, quite frankly, if the producers can get them, they're not going to take me. I'm still pretty much a medium potato.
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Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.
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Do you know what it's like to be the kind of girl that boys never talk to and then suddenly, a boy talks to you?
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Dad, is it all right to take things from people you don't like?
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I'm no theologian. I don't know who or what God is. All I know is he's more powerful than Mom and Dad put together.
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We're able to tell the truth in a way that you can't tell with real people. I think because it's animated, you um, you have enough of a barrier to say things that people might find offensive or be sort of appalled, or the censors would go 'no way', you know, because it's animated.
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It's sort of frustrating. I've been at this for 12 years, and you'd think all the work means something. Well, not necessarily.
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You know, you are not born with a soul. You earn it with suffering, hard work and prayer. Which hopefully you did last night.