Bill Plympton Quotes
I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.
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The American dream is about freedom.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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It's a great gig, really: getting on stage, playing the guitar, singing. For a living, it's super.
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Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
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We claim no infallibility for our presentations.
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Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.
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I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.
