I think when ‘The Simpsons’ first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They realized the show’s really funny, it’s got a heart, so I think it’s pretty safe. – Matt Groening
The conundrum that I face on a daily basis is that I have two sons who have grown up watching ‘The Simpsons,’ so they know exactly what buttons to push. They know how Bart irritates Homer, and they use these lines against me to tell me that I’m not funny anymore. – Matt Groening
‘The Simpsons’ from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash ’60s sitcoms – you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention – and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and ’80s, things got very mild and toned down and… obsequious. – Matt Groening
‘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. – Matt Groening
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. – Matt Groening
Oftentimes, what seems to be a street lunatic charging at me spouting gibberish turns out to be a devoted ‘Simpsons’ fan quoting their favorite line. – Matt Groening
Before I was 12 years old, I had no interest in music; I was just into football. Then I heard Don McLean’s ‘Vincent’ come on at the end of an episode of ‘The Simpsons.’ You know when you hear something and you don’t understand why you like it, you just do? That’s how I felt. I just thought, ‘I want to be able to write songs like that.’ – Jake Bugg
‘The Simpsons’ obviously is a huge success, and Fox has nothing to do with its success, with its creative success, and as a result they don’t really like the show. They don’t like ‘The Simpsons’ at Fox. – Matt Groening
Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons’ subversive story telling, but there’s another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories. – Matt Groening
I grew up, obviously, watching tons of animation; Saturday morning cartoons or anything that we could get our hands on. And then when ‘The Simpsons’ premiered, that just kind of changed the landscape of everything. We hadn’t had prime time animations since ‘The Flintstones.’ – Rachael MacFarlane
Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like ‘Shrek’ or ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘Robin Hood’ manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways. – Richard C. Armitage
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. – Patrick Warburton
The success of ‘The Simpsons’ really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn’t necessarily have to be working in kids’ television. – Seth MacFarlane
Between ‘Futurama’ and ‘Simpsons,’ I’m able to work with the voices of Michael Jackson, Dustin Hoffman, and the cast of ‘Star Trek.’ It’s great, you know; it’s great to work with such talented people. – Rich Moore
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. – Ralph Bakshi
The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That’s what works. That’s one of the things that’s funny. – Seth MacFarlane
The way Disney characters move, they’re very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like ‘The Simpsons’ and subsequently a show like ‘Family Guy’ – the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show. – Seth MacFarlane
I’m not even Indian-American: I’m Indian-Indian. Everybody expected me to have henna and a nose pin and talk in an accent like Apu from ‘The Simpsons.’ I was nervous because I wasn’t sure if America was ready for a lead that looked like me. – Priyanka Chopra
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. – Sarah Snook
I think about ‘The Simpsons,’ which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30’s. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won’t lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age. – Ted Naifeh
‘Monty Python’ and ‘The Simpsons’ have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives. – Scott Adsit
I’m kind of a dork. I don’t have much game. I’m not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons. – Wentworth Miller
‘The Simpsons’ money got bigger and bigger. When I left ‘The Simpsons’, no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It’s the cumulative effect. It’s like, ‘Oh my God, 25 years later, and it’s still coming in.’ – Sam Simon
When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for ‘The Simpsons’ who’d briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life. – Zadie Smith
With ‘The Simpsons,’ people didn’t know what they were gonna see. They didn’t have a clue. – Sam Simon
‘The Simpsons’ appearances were great fun. But I don’t take them too seriously. I think ‘The Simpsons’ have treated my disability responsibly. – Stephen Hawking
You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they’re really sophisticated shows that we all love back home. – Simon Pegg
