Dan Castellaneta Quotes
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The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!
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You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.
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After years of doing impressions, its time for a change.
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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.
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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.
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Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.
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If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
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The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.
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If something is to hard to do, then it's not worth doing.
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You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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You think I don't want to? It's those TV networks, Marge: they won't let me. One quality show after another, each one fresher and more brilliant than the last. If they only stumbled once, just gave us thirty minutes to ourselves, but they won't! They won't let me live!
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces, I just know they're about to jab me with something.
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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.
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Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy.
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The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.
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This donut has purple in the middle, purple is a fruit.
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The code of the schoolyard, Marge! The rules that teach a boy to be a man. Let's see. Don't tattle. Always make fun of those different from you. Never say anything, unless you're sure everyone feels exactly the same way you do.
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To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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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.
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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.
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In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!