Actor Quotes

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.

It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.

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.

It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.

It is better to watch things then to do them.

In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

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

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.

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.

I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.

I often say, if I wasn't part of the show I'd be a huge fan of it.

I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.

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

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

Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.

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.

Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us.

I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.