Quotes by Trey Parker

About Trey Parker:

Randolph Severn is an American actor, animator, screenwriter, director, producer, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for being the co-creator of South Park along with his creative partner Matt Stone, as well as co-writing and co-directing the Tony-winning 2011 musical The Book of Mormon. Parker was interested in film and music as a child, and attended the University of Colorado, Boulder following high school, where he met Stone. The two collaborated on various short films, and starred in a feature-length musical, titled Cannibal! The Musical, in 1993.
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It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene,...

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I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.

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Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

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Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?

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Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

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Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

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It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that it has a big heart at its center. Other cartoon shows have people crap on each other and make racist jokes. But I don't think people tune in for that. I ju...

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What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.

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The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

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When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and...

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People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don't make sense to anyone else.

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I see Santa Claus and Joseph Smith and Luke Skywalker as the same person.

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Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

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The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

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I don't even know where Russia and Mexico are.

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When you were a teenager in Colorado, the way to be a punk rocker was to rip on Reagan and Bush and what they were doing and talk about how everyone in Colorado's a redneck with a gun and all this stuff.

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How many times have you been watching an episode of 'South Park' and thought, 'I'd like to be able to watch this on my television while hooked into my mobile device, which is being controlled by my tablet device which is hooked into my oven, all whil...

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So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.

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Any job is a job. If you have to be doing something, then you're probably not enjoying it.

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I hate puppets so much.

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Author Bio

  • NameTrey Parker
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, voice artist, animator, screenwriter, director, producer and musician
  • BornOctober 19, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Television Director; Film Director; Actor; Writer; Film Producer; Musician; Voice Actor; Animator; Singer-songwriter; Composer
  • AwardsPeabody Award; Annie Award; Primetime Emmy Award; Laurence Olivier Award