Top 60 Simpsons Quotes

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

The truth is that many of the writers of ‘The Simpsons’ are deeply in love with numbers, and their ultimate desire is to drip-feed morsels of mathematics into the subconscious minds of viewers.

I’ve been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson – but I was on ‘The Simpsons,’ and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

By June 1990, I’d racked up ‘written by’ credits on both ‘Newhart’ and ‘The Simpsons.’

‘The Simpsons’ appearances were great fun. But I don’t take them too seriously. I think ‘The Simpsons’ have treated my disability responsibly.

That’s been the case for decades. ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘King of the Hill’ – they do the preproduction in America, and the production is in Korea or in some cases China, or occasionally Japan or India.

I’m a great admirer of ‘The Simpsons.’ It’s very surprising because it’s backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it’s poking fun at the people who would be its audience.

Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of ‘The Simpsons.’ This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.

We went to church twice a week. My parents were employed in ministry; we prayed before dinner. We rollerbladed in the summer. We were allowed to watch the ‘Simpsons.’ I fought with my younger brother over Legos.

I acted in ‘Almost Famous.’ My album ‘Fingerprints’ won a Grammy Award in 2007. Even more prestigious, as far as my kids were concerned, I appeared in episodes of ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘Family Guy.’

My family is really a classy ‘Simpsons.’

Yeah, my first love was ‘The Simpsons,’ but in terms of movies and stuff, I loved ‘Back To The Future,’ I loved ‘Jurassic Park,’ I loved ‘The Truman Show.’

‘Monty Python’ and ‘The Simpsons’ have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That’s what works. That’s one of the things that’s funny.

It’s not exactly calm at Christmas. It’s a bit like the Simpsons appearing in a pasta advert – lots of bickering, crazy pets, and plenty of tomato sauce!

With ‘The Simpsons,’ people didn’t know what they were gonna see. They didn’t have a clue.

I think the No. 1 lesson I learned from ‘The Simpsons’ was just that animation could be as funny as live-action. That animation could be funnier than live-action. That animation didn’t have to just be for kids.

I know there are other Elton Simpsons out there. But I also know there are Elton Simpsons out there I cannot see.

‘The Simpsons’ is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.

My mother had no interest in cartoons. I remember thinking, ‘I am never going to grow into that person.’ Which is so ironic – now I get to work on ‘Family Guy’ and ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘Futurama’, all of these great animated series! TV was my passion.

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

Our solution on ‘The Simpsons’ is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don’t, it doesn’t matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, ‘D’oh!’

I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with ‘The Simpsons’ and with ‘Futurama,’ what I’m trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible – is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we’re being manipulated and exploited.

I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I’ve also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to ‘The Simpsons.’

We’ve got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It’s bizarre, and they’re writing some very funny stuff.

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

I think ‘The Simpsons’ is in the right time slot because it’s not a show for kids. It’s too vulgar. And ‘Ren and Stimpy’ is worse. We would never do anything like that.

I think ‘Family Guy’ and ‘American Dad’ have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that ‘The Simpsons’ is taking jokes from ‘Family Guy.’ And I can tell you, that ain’t the case.

I think the weather here is a big attraction for anyone. But also, there are more creative people per square mile in L.A. than anywhere in the world. They make ‘The Simpsons’ here. Anywhere they make ‘The Simpsons’ is a good place to be.

Maybe it’ll be like ‘The Simpsons,’ and everybody will remain unchanged. Maybe that’s what ‘Glee’s about. Maybe this is kind of a stasis show. I don’t know.

‘The Simpsons’ is a tough act to follow, so I thought it was best not to do what they do.

I grew up watching ‘The Office’ and ‘Father Ted’ and all the British things at that time – ‘The Royle Family’ – and the American ones like ‘Friends,’ ‘Frasier’ and ‘The Simpsons.’

Early on in my career, I was often the only woman in the room, writing for shows like ‘Late Night with David Letterman,’ ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘Newhart,’ and ‘Coach,’ and sometimes I’d feel like I didn’t belong.

My nana used to tape ‘The Simpsons’ when it aired on Sky. We’d get the VHS tapes – my dad would courier them from Nana’s house to us – and we’d watch them on Sunday nights.

We have a lot of American TV in Australia. I grew up watching ‘Seinfeld,’ ‘The Simpsons’ and those prime time TV shows over the years that feature grown-ups and high school kids. We had a saturation of American voices.

I’ve always liked shows that have a strong cast of secondary characters. One of the greatest examples ever I would say is ‘The Simpsons.’ If you think about it, you could name 100 characters recognizable from that show. I think ‘Scrubs’ has done a good job of having a strong team coming off the bench.

I think the cartoons that they’re children are watching, particularly ‘The Simpsons,’ they’re OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That’s not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.

Typically in animation, the characters exist in a kind of stasis. Look at ‘The Simpsons’ – they never age, the baby never grows up – or ‘Peanuts’ – the kids never grow up, they always stay the same age.

With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.

I have less to do with ‘The Simpsons’ every season, but I stick my nose in here and there. Basically, it’s just trying to keep the characters consistent and making sure the show has a soul.

‘The Simpsons’ was about children and married parents; ‘Futurama’ is about people in between; they’re growing up and haven’t settled down. Every other cartoon show seemed to be, you know, dumb dad, bratty kids.

On ‘The Simpsons,’ I will say that we definitely like to comment on what’s going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we’ve gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.

That guy in ‘The Simpsons’ – I love Groundskeeper Willie.

I’m lucky that I can walk down the street, and maybe one person will recognise me from ‘The Simpsons,’ and another person will recognise me from ‘Spinal Tap,’ and it’s always surprising.

After ‘Nikki’ and ‘Steve Harvey,’ I had written on a show called ‘The Oblongs,’ which was pretty well respected and had a lot of ‘Simpsons’ writers on it. So I was a TV writer with an interesting voice at that moment.

There’s not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you’re one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there’s The Simpsons, and then there’s everything else.

We did ‘The Simpsons Movie,’ which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it just killed us. So that’s why there hasn’t been a second movie. But I imagine if the show ever does go off the air, they’ll start doing movies.

I always wanted to be a film-maker when I was younger, not an actor. I was an eight-year-old who dreamed of being a writer on ‘The Simpsons,’ which was a weird dream to have. But I started taking acting classes as a way to learn how to direct actors and I sort of fell in love with it.

I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from ‘The Simpsons’, and then later in life they see the thing we’re parodying. My kids had not seen ‘Casablanca,’ and we’d done parodies of ‘Casablanca.’

‘The Simpsons’ basically – and ‘Futurama’ – are really smart shows. They’re kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you’re paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated.

Everything I do, I do it with the hope that people will watch it more than twice. Whether it’s ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ or ‘Pacific Rim’ or the opening of ‘The Simpsons,’ I do it with that hope.

I always say that ‘Futurama’ is real, and ‘The Simpsons’ is fiction.