Dan Castellaneta quotes

Dan Castellaneta is an American actor, voice actor, and comedian, best known for his role as the voice of Homer Simpson on the animated television show "The Simpsons." His vocal performances have brought to life several beloved characters, ingraining him in popular culture. He continues to entertain audiences through his wide-ranging talents in television, film, and theater. Here are 32 of his quotes:

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

Dan Castellaneta

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

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There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.

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Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

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To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.

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Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

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The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.

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The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity.

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It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.

Dan Castellaneta

It is better to watch things then to do them.

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After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

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If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.

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It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

Dan Castellaneta

The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.

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I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.

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I'm not a bad guy I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell.

Dan Castellaneta

Kill myself Killing myself is the last thing I'd ever do. Now I have a purpose, a reason to live. I don't care who I have to face, I don't care who I have to fight, I will not rest until this street gets a stop sign.

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If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.

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Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks And talk about a preachy book Everybody's a sinner Except this guy.

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In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

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The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.

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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

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