Mike Judge Quotes

• You ought to try being cruel to some people.

  Mike Judge

• You know, at that age you want to show everyone else how wild you are. It’s a combination of being bored, looking for a cheap thrill and being really stupid – a dangerous combination.

  Mike Judge

• Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?

  Mike Judge

• Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.

  Mike Judge

• When the show started out, it was like all of a sudden we had to do 35 episodes and we had just a month and a half to write them, and it took me a while to realize that I was in charge.

  Mike Judge

• When I was a kid it was like, who could be the coolest? Who could do the stupidest thing? And you knew it was a stupid thing to do, but you would do it just so you could be the coolest guy. And then you end up doing really cruel crap.

  Mike Judge

• They’re free because they don’t know any, better. So they can just run around and do whatever, and do whatever, and most of the time they don’t get caught.

  Mike Judge

• They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it’s satirizing the people who watch MTV.

  Mike Judge

• They don’t make you pay for the humor. It’s up and down, but they’re trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

  Mike Judge

• Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

  Mike Judge

• Susie Lynn, the producer of those segments, goes in and lays all the voices over the video.

  Mike Judge

• Stealing, you’ll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

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• She defaced my fly. And I’ve never been the same since.

  Mike Judge

• People say that the Beavis voice doesn’t sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me.

  Mike Judge

• One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.

  Mike Judge

• One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie – was that the rule is that animated movies don’t work unless they’re Disney movies for kids. Unless they’re family movies.

  Mike Judge

• It’s amazing what we can get away with and what we can’t. But it’s not for me to decide.

  Mike Judge

• It was really weird, when this thing started, to hear lawyers and MTV people calling me and actually saying ‘ButtHead.’ People tried to avoid it too.

  Mike Judge

• It seems like there’s a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it’s weird. There’s people who just don’t understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you’re condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

  Mike Judge

• In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

  Mike Judge

Mike Judge (33)

Birth:	17th October, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Animator, Cartoonist, Composer, Director, Writer

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• 1888 - Robert Moses
• 1927 - Ramsey Clark
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