Dan Castellaneta famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Tired #People #Feel Good
I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Kids #Hard Work #Sunday
There is no strong beer, just weak men
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Strong #Beer #Men
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
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Writing #Play #Waiting
The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Running #Character #Thinking
Operator! Give me the number for 911!
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Numbers #Giving
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.
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Lazy #May #Common
All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat?'. I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Winning #People #Trying
Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Beer #Solutions #Temporary
If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Scripts
It is better to watch things then to do them.
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Watches
Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Play #Make You Happy
Kill myself? Killing myself is the last thing I'd ever do. Now I have a purpose, a reason to live. I don't care who I have to face, I don't care who I have to fight, I will not rest until this street gets a stop sign!
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Fighting #Purpose #Care
It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Stars #Character #Acting
There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Inspired #Sometimes #Animator
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
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Dark #People #Giving
If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Guy #Blame #Speak
If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Girl #Sports #Wrestling
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.
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Book #Guy #Bucks
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.
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Cutting #Years #Differences
Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Race #Easy #Tricks
I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
-- Dan Castellaneta

#School #Writing #College
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.
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Long #Acting #Matter
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
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Nice #Character #Cartoon
The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Littles #Able #Wells
After years of doing impressions, its time for a change.
-- Dan Castellaneta

#Years #Time For A Change #Impression

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