Berkeley Breathed Quotes
I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
Quotes to Explore
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
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I don't like to look typical.
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
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On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.
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Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.
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For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.
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When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.
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Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.
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I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
