Cartoonist Quotes

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

Most cartoonists are failed actors.

In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?

I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me.

I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.

I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.

I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.

Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.