Matt Groening Quotes

• To alcohol! The cause of… and solution to… all of life’s problems

  Matt Groening

  Topics in Truth

• 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

  Topics in Humor, Love

• We’ve been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so.

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  Tags in Little

• It’s just hard not to listen to TV: it’s spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

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  Tags in Listen

• Don’t have a cow, man.

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  Tags in Man

• Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

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  Tags in Forget

• A lot of our writers, like Conan O’Brien, moved on to other things.

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  Tags in Like

• I also found child’s play – stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy – was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

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• One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I’m thinking about an audience, it’s usually a younger version of myself.

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  Tags in Like

• When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It’s hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

• Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

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  Tags in Think

• 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.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in School

• Eat my shorts!

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Eat

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

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  Tags in Learned

• Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we’ve done that before.

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  Tags in Character

• It’s a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We’ve got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we’ve explored some of the secondary characters’ personal lives a bit more.

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  Tags in Character

• Where do babies come from? Don’t bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation have yielded fruitful, if tentative, results. There are several theories. Near as we can figure out, it has something to do with acting ridiculous in the dark. We believe it is similar to dogs when they act peculiar and ride each other. This is called “making love”. Careful study of popular song lyrics, advertising catch-lines, TV sitcoms, movies, and T-Shirt inscriptions offers us significant clues as to its nature. Apparently it makes grown-ups insipid and insane. Some graffiti was once observed that said “sex is good”. All available evidence, however, points to the contrary.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Babies, Adulthood

• I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.

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  Tags in Want

• I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I will do it again.

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• When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

  Matt Groening

Matt Groening (37)

Birth:	15th February, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cartoonist, Producer, Screenwriter

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