Mike Judge Quotes

“All the Disney lead male characters always have this kind of John Davidson kind of look to them. They all look like the same guy, and all the females look like the same, and I think the guys are just way too big.”

“Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.”

“Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it begins to simply reward those who reproduce the most and leave the intelligent to become an endangered species.”

“He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.”

“I actually saw a kid and went home and drew him. I don't even know who he was. I was buying a TV set in Circuit City. I was looking at this kid and he was kind of standing there, staring off into space. Kids are pretty chubby nowadays because of all the fast-food places. I grew up eating fast food but now everything is double beef and double cheese. So there are a lot of these chubby boys with long, baggy shorts.”

“I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else.”

“I didn't think I would make this much money.”

“I don't get as much fan mail as an actor or singer would, but when I get a letter 99% of the time it's pointing out something that really had an impact. Like after 'My Own Private Rodeo' all these people wrote to me and said Dale's dad inspired them to come out. And this was when it was still illegal to be gay in Texas and a few other states. Another one that really stuck with me was this girl who survived Columbine. See, "Wings of the Dope," the episode where Luanne's boyfriend comes back as an angel, aired two weeks after the shooting. About a month after that, I got a letter from a girl who was there and hid somewhere in the school when it was all going on. She said the first thing she was gonna do if she survived was tell a friend of hers she was in love with him. She never did. He ended up being one of the kids responsible for it. So you can imagine how ? you know, to her, it felt wrong to grieve almost, and she bottled it up. But she saw that episode and Buckley walking away at the end and something just let her finally break down and greive and miss the guy. I remember she quoted Luanne ? 'I wonder if he's guardianing some other girl,' or something along that line, because she never had the guts to tell the kid. That really gets to people at Comic Con.”

“I don't return anybody's calls unless it's going to mean extra money for me. And I've completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I've copped an attitude.”

“I don't think any movie I would do would be too serious or serious at all.”

“I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in 'The Nutty Professor'. I really liked that.”

“I often feel that my life, much like my shows, will end on a cliffhanger.”

“I put the storyboard down and came back to it like two weeks later and saw that I had written 'Butt-Head' next to the picture, and it kind of made me laugh and I thought, Well, might as well go for every laugh you can get.”

“I think at the point when they were first starting to talk about a movie, it was a little bit different back then.”

“I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.”

“I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.”

“I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.”

“I'm fine watching stuff on tape, to me casting is the most painful part of the whole process, it's like going on a horribly awkward date every five minutes for eight hours, and people come in and they'll be someone good but they're not right, and you want to tell them they're good, but it sounds like BS, and they're looking at your face to see how they did, what adjustments they need, and it's just so emotionally draining, and it goes on and on.”

“I'm sorry I can't get into Scooby Doo on any level.”

“I've got a huge, gigantic deal. We're talking about huge deals.”

“I've seen a lot of pairs of guys that have been hanging out together way too long-until they're laughing all the time.”

“In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.”

“It kind of hit me at some point during the process that most people in the film business – not just the executives, the people who make them, too – tend to come from pretty upper-class backgrounds. If they go work a job, it's to have that experience, that sort of thing. After they graduate college, they have time to go visit Europe and take some time off and get their heads together. That kind of thing, I sure didn't have.”

“It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.”

“It was really weird, when this thing started, to hear lawyers and MTV people calling me and actually saying 'ButtHead.' People tried to avoid it too.”

“It's amazing what we can get away with and what we can't. But it's not for me to decide.”

“Joe was about to learn, that in the future, justice was not only blind, but had become rather retarded as well.”

“One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie – was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies.”

“One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.”

“People say that the Beavis voice doesn't sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me.”