I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn’t exist.
BERKELEY BREATHEDI will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn’t exist.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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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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Steve Dallas…a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He’s never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.
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I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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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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It’s not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one’s own material.
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The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I’d never had before. I didn’t meet the people who read my material.
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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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He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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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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Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us…
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The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that’d done them for a living. And I didn’t have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn’t have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.
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Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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I knew ‘Mars Needs Moms! ‘ would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.
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