Joel Hodgson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

South Park started as a little video Christmas card.
-- Joel Hodgson

#Christmas #Video #Cards
Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.
-- Joel Hodgson

#World #Littles #Sometimes
The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop.
-- Joel Hodgson

#Twenties #Firsts #Tvs
So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.
-- Joel Hodgson

#Thinking #People #Sitting
Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
-- Joel Hodgson

#Mystery #Influence #Theater
Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didnâ€™t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, thatâ€™s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. Iâ€™d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldnâ€™t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.
-- Joel Hodgson

#School #Mean #Thinking
If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.
-- Joel Hodgson

#Years #Deny #Shows
Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.
-- Joel Hodgson

#Thinking #Cartoon #Analogies
A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.
-- Joel Hodgson

#Mystery #Theater #Shows
A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.
-- Joel Hodgson

#Trying #Serious #Theory
But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.
-- Joel Hodgson

#Nice #Thinking #People
Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.
-- Joel Hodgson

#Brother #Turtles #Names
I spend a lot of time thinking about what I do and how it fits into the scheme of things. I won't do something just because it's funny.
-- Joel Hodgson

#Thinking #Fit #Schemes

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