Joe Murray Quotes

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
Joe Murray

Marriage, Duet, Sings

We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers.
Joe Murray

Real, Industry, Estate

Anyone who knows me, knows I don't walk away from a commitment, but I had a commitment to myself. Yes, there were times Nickelodeon made it more difficult than it needed to be, but there were also times they made it easier.
Joe Murray

Made, Away, Difficult

I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters.
Joe Murray

Getting, Stories, Characters

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.
Joe Murray

Great, Art, Artist

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.
Joe Murray

Around, Themselves, Worked

I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.
Joe Murray

Hand, Seen, Useful

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.
Joe Murray

Excitement, Memory, Table

I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas 'are' funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.
Joe Murray

Funny, Thought, Whole

I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.
Joe Murray

Why, Interested, Skin

I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for.
Joe Murray

Money, Great, Give

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.
Joe Murray

Patient, Status, Dramatic

Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.
Joe Murray

Difficult, Dangerous, Healthy

Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the 'Normal' environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio.
Joe Murray

Since, Run, Normal

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.
Joe Murray

Success, Money, Art

Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.
Joe Murray

Time, Working, Sometimes

Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.
Joe Murray

Politics, Sometimes, Show

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.
Joe Murray

Friend, Played, Based

To the patient, any operation is momentous.
Joe Murray

Patient, Operation, Momentous

Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.
Joe Murray

Two, Child, Days

When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.
Joe Murray

Time, Good, Bad

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.
Joe Murray

Money, Art, Else

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.
Joe Murray

Life, Time, Human

Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
Joe Murray

Work, Morning, Prayer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: May 3, 1961

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