Top 26 Quotes by Dan Castellaneta

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.

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.

I often say, if I wasn't part of the show I'd be a huge fan of it.

It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.

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

It is better to watch things then to do them.

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

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.

Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.