Berkeley Breathed Quotes

American - Cartoonist Born: June 21, 1957

It's never too late to have a happy childhood. - Berkeley Breathed

It's never too late to have a happy childhood. Berkeley Breathed

Childhood, Happy, Late, Never Too Late

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns. Berkeley Breathed

Children, Experience, Suspense, First

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion. Berkeley Breathed

Heart, Ugly, Say, I Can, Emotion, Most

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke. Berkeley Breathed

Down, You, Joke, Something, Make, Gotta

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world. Berkeley Breathed

World, Moral, You, Tell, Complex, Simply

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were. Berkeley Breathed

Stupid, Child, Goodbye, Saying, Last

Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists. Berkeley Breathed

Nature, End, Rich, Result, Lazy, More

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books. Berkeley Breathed

Children, Humor, Negative, Better, Long

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids. Berkeley Breathed

Change, Books, Kids, Write, Period

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out. Berkeley Breathed

Find, Us, Out, Our, Before, Our Lives

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly. Berkeley Breathed

Art, You, Price, Now, Paint, Hang

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' Berkeley Breathed

Environment, Bloom, Because, Rural, Tidy

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist. Berkeley Breathed

Personality, Will, Go, Become, Exist

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Berkeley Breathed

Nature, Lose, Cleaning, Lady, Bloom, Pay

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards. Berkeley Breathed

Holidays, Ignore, Cards, Greeting, Guy

The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it. Berkeley Breathed

Page, Dying, Want, Go, Comic

I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, Especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way. Berkeley Breathed

People, Me, Think, Way, Find, Boring

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan. Berkeley Breathed

Daily, Texas, News, Photographer, Texan

If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have. Berkeley Breathed

Day, Me, Every Day, Years, Cat, Pay

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize. Berkeley Breathed

Serious, Nothing, Anymore, Then

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually. Berkeley Breathed

Daughter, Me, Mind, Mars, Needs, Would

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat. Berkeley Breathed

Simple, Picture, Story, Why, Backwards

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly. Berkeley Breathed

Failure, Heart, Anger, Driving, Drawing

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course. Berkeley Breathed

College, Influence, Attention, Did, Who

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place. Berkeley Breathed

Childhood, Place, Los Angeles, Always

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination. Berkeley Breathed

Imagination, Universe, Wish, Tiger, Fake

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