Daniel Louis Castellaneta Quotes

• 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.

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• If I were actually Homer Simpson, I’d be getting scripts out the wazoo.

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• In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

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• It is better to watch things then to do them.

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• It’s a different way of getting across an emotion. You’re trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.

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• 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.

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• It’s the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.

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• 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.

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• One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn’t even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer’s image changing because he had hair.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• The Simpsons take up so little time that I’m able to do other things as well.

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• The voice doesn’t take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it’s really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

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• I think that most people don’t even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.

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• I often say, if I wasn’t part of the show I’d be a huge fan of it.

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Daniel Louis Castellaneta (26)

Birth:	29th October, 1957
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter

About

Daniel Louis Castellaneta was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He is an American actor, comedian and screenwriter. After graduating from Northern Illinois University, Castellaneta joined Chicago's Second City in 1983, and performed with the troupe until 1987. He was cast in The Tracey Ullman Show, which debuted in 1987. He has also had roles in several other television programs. He has also released a comedy CD, I Am Not Homer, and wrote and starred in a one-person show titled Where Did Vincent van Gogh? He has won four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his work on the show as well as an Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in the Field of Animation in 1993.

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