If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.
BERKELEY BREATHEDAnd just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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If you’ll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you’ll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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I happen to think nearly everybody – especially those one might find in the odd issue of ‘People’ magazine, including me – is frightfully boring, especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.
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I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
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My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it all.
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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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It’s not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one’s own material.
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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.
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The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
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I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.
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I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.
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I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.
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Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us…
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Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.
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I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child – which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.
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