Berkeley Breathed famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Personality #Fascination #States
Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Girlfriend #School #Boys
I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Heart #Cynical #Comforting
I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Childhood #Different #Los Angeles
I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, Especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Thinking #Issues #People
I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Art #Wall #Missing
I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Texas #News #Photographer
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.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Adventure #Boys #Imagination
If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Cat #Yelling #Years
If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Serious
It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Challenges #Mind #Digital
Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Mind #Portions #Readership
My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Children #Book #Writing
I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Holiday #Guy #Cards
That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Anger #Heart #Hands
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Writing #Years #Pay
Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
-- Berkeley Breathed
Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Heart #Politics #Libertarian
And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Bunnies #Jammies #Granny
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Funny #Happiness #Happy
Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family...
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Christmas #Intelligent #Compassion
I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Goodbye #Children #Stupid
I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Mom #Daughter #Mother
He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Dying #Want #Pages
Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Tears #Deconstruction #Jokes
'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#Children #Plot #Suspense
Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
-- Berkeley Breathed

#College #Attention #Influence

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