Matt Groening famous quotes

You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.
-- Matt Groening

#Heart #Voice #Sanity

A lot of American shows don't last for as long as 12 episodes. They get cut after one. But certainly one of the great things about The Office in particular was that there was a beginning, a middle and an end.
-- Matt Groening

#Cutting #Office #Long

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
-- Matt Groening

#Love #Family #Emotional

I always thought that television was the way to go in my goal to invade pop culture because it got to towns in which there were no bookstores. That's how I used to think of it: How do I reach kids who not only don't read but probably have no access to much in the way of books?
-- Matt Groening

#Book #Kids #Thinking

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.
-- Matt Groening

#Real #Believe #People

I'm a fan of animation and so, the more stuff that doesn't look like the other stuff that's out there, I'm in favor.
-- Matt Groening

#Favors #Stuff #Fans

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
-- Matt Groening

#Food #Humor #Alcohol

I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam: one nacho, underpants with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.
-- Matt Groening

#Wine #Snakes #Owl

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening

#Love #Life #Broken Heart

With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.
-- Matt Groening

#Character #Want #Boundaries

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
-- Matt Groening

#Sentences

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
-- Matt Groening

#Witty #Sex #Important

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.
-- Matt Groening

#Being Yourself #Creativity #Mean

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
-- Matt Groening

#Love #Dance #Dream

Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?
-- Matt Groening

#Inspiration #Food #Donuts

When you're as important as I am, getting your feelings hurt by me is almost an honor.
-- Matt Groening

#Hurt #Feelings #Honor

I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.
-- Matt Groening

#Shadow #Levels #Vegan

I don't mind sharing the blame if she'll just admit she started it.
-- Matt Groening

#Mind #Blame #Insult

How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?
-- Matt Groening

#Trying #Breakfast #Manipulation

I'm a writer who just happens to draw
-- Matt Groening

#Draws

I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain.
-- Matt Groening

#Pain #Causes #Insult

You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.
-- Matt Groening

#Justice #Long #May

God often gives nuts to toothless people.
-- Matt Groening

#Nuts #Giving #People

Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.
-- Matt Groening

#People #Mind #Trying

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.
-- Matt Groening

#Book #Kids #Fiction

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.
-- Matt Groening

#Book #Kids #Media

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'
-- Matt Groening

#Village #Littles #Said

I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.
-- Matt Groening

#Sorry #Party #People

I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.
-- Matt Groening

#Crazy #Thinking #Cartoon

I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They realized the show's really funny, it's got a heart, so I think it's pretty safe.
-- Matt Groening

#Heart #Thinking #People

American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ... but Zappa, he's got the best moustache in American history. Got the moustache, right, and he's got that little thing on his chin, I think it's called an imperial, that is, like, the coolest thing. That's like one of the great icons of the twentieth century.
-- Matt Groening

#Thinking #Icons #Culture

The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.
-- Matt Groening

#Rocks #Ugly #Rock N Roll

I was very disturbed when Jesus found a demon in a guy, and he put the demon in a herd of pigs, then sent them off a cliff. What did the pigs do? I could never figure that out. It just seemed very un-Christian. Technically, I'm an agnostic, but I definitely believe in hell -- especially after watching the fall TV schedule.
-- Matt Groening

#Christian #Jesus #Believe

For some reason, a lot of Hollywood big shots are curious to see how they'd be drawn with bulging eyes and no chin.
-- Matt Groening

#Eye #Drawing #Hollywood

I pledge impertinence to the flag waving, of the unindicted co-conspirators of America, and to the republicans for which I can't stand, one abomination, underhanded fraud, indefensible, with Liberty and Justice.. Forget it.
-- Matt Groening

#America #Justice #Liberty

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.
-- Matt Groening

#Sex #Comedy

You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.
-- Matt Groening

#Embrace

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
-- Matt Groening

#Parent #Tvs #More Time

I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.
-- Matt Groening

#Growing Up #Book #Kids

Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless.
-- Matt Groening

#Years #Temptation #Television

I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals flaming.
-- Matt Groening

#Beer #Tvs #Cold

Let's face it, all the good stuff happens after midnight.
-- Matt Groening

#Inspirational #Stuff #Faces

Are we alone in an uncaring universe, or is God some kind of wiseguy?
-- Matt Groening

#Kind #Uncaring #Universe

Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address.
-- Matt Groening

#Kissing #Bored #Addresses

If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.
-- Matt Groening

#Guitar #Radio #Next

Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.
-- Matt Groening

#Loneliness #Dangerous #Cheeseburger

I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff.
-- Matt Groening

#Fancy #Stuff #Dirt

How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
-- Matt Groening

#Home #Brain #Stuff

Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.
-- Matt Groening

#Santa #Birth #Meaning Of Christmas

Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it?
-- Matt Groening

#Love #Sweet #Life Is

Fans think they want to see more than the 10 to 20 seconds of Itchy and Scratchy that we put on the show, but my feeling is less is more. Once you've skinned and flayed a cat, ripped his head off, made him drink acid and tied his tongue to the moon, there really isn't that much to say.
-- Matt Groening

#Cat #Moon #Thinking

I think there is a certain charm to the hand drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it's so rich in texture that my eyes actually get tired. Everything is in focus down to the littlest leaf.
-- Matt Groening

#Tired #Eye #Thinking