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If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
Dan Castellaneta
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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.
Dan Castellaneta
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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.
Dan Castellaneta
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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.
Dan Castellaneta
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I often say, if I wasn't part of the show I'd be a huge fan of it.
Dan Castellaneta
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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.
Dan Castellaneta
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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.
Dan Castellaneta
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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.
Dan Castellaneta
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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.
Dan Castellaneta
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Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
Dan Castellaneta
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There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.
Dan Castellaneta
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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.
Dan Castellaneta
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The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.
Dan Castellaneta
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