Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?
I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops.
I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.
I'm a big fan of Katt Williams, Jim Gaffigan, Louie CK, Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffin, Rich Vas, Joey Vega and Matt Claybrooks.
As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, 'Ah, now we know why you are doing it.'
I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.
The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.
Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.
In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.
On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.
I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.
We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.
