Matt Groening Quotes

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

Love, Night, Racing

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.
Matt Groening

Life, Yourself, Important

God often gives nuts to toothless people.
Matt Groening

God, Often, Nuts

Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.
Matt Groening

Good, Mind, Find

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
Matt Groening

Life, Problems, Here

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.
Matt Groening

Funny, Around, Last

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
Matt Groening

Love, Emotional, Overcoming

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.
Matt Groening

Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'
Matt Groening

Education, Saying, Matter

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.
Matt Groening

Writers, Moved, Conan

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.
Matt Groening

Life, Real, Everything

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
Matt Groening

Everything, Try, Else

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

Good, Writing, Often

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.
Matt Groening

Career, Two, Write

Don't have a cow, man.
Matt Groening

Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?
Matt Groening

Eat my shorts!
Matt Groening

Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.
Matt Groening

Joke, Everybody, Appreciate

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.
Matt Groening

Play, Serious, Child

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.
Matt Groening

Why, Again, Enjoyed

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.
Matt Groening

Life, Before, Hell

I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time."
Matt Groening

Life, Time, Happy

I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.
Matt Groening

Great, Pretty, Machines

I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.
Matt Groening

Love, Different, Put

I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' And I can tell you, that ain't the case.
Matt Groening

Family, Dad, Tell

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Cartoonist

Born: February 15, 1954

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