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

Dan Castellaneta

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

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

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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. "

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

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

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

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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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics! "

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