Quotes by Garry Trudeau

About Garry Trudeau:

Garretson Beekman is an American cartoonist, best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury comic strip. Trudeau is also the creator and executive producer of the Amazon Studios political comedy series Alpha House.
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I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

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I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I nev...

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Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

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Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

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I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

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I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

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I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and...

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In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering th...

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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.

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There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.

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As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.

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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

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In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

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Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

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Author Bio

  • NameGarry Trudeau
  • DescriptionCartoonist
  • BornJuly 21, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionCartoonist
  • AwardsPulitzer Prize For Editorial Cartooning; George Polk Award