Garry Trudeau Quotes

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

Insecurity, Exercise, Ideal

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

Bad, Divorce, Lawyers

Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.
Garry Trudeau

Time, Bring, Sexuality

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

Off, Far, Concerned

Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
Garry Trudeau

School, High, Felt

Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
Garry Trudeau

After, Able, Year

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.
Garry Trudeau

Time, Character, Moving

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

Hard, While, Ideas

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.
Garry Trudeau

College, Until, Belief

For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.
Garry Trudeau

Sense, Makes, Support

Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
Garry Trudeau

Work, Become, Won

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

Humor, Down, Military

I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
Garry Trudeau

Try, Keep, Whether

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.
Garry Trudeau

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.
Garry Trudeau

Good, Business, Here

I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
Garry Trudeau

Work, Wanted, Hurting

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
Garry Trudeau

Work, Happen, Skill

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 feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?
Garry Trudeau

Life, Yourself, Bad

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
Garry Trudeau

Try, Paper, Clients

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
Garry Trudeau

Time, Live, Try

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

Good, Working, Piece

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 never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.
Garry Trudeau

Work, Money, Home

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.
Garry Trudeau

Interested, Fellow, Passing

I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
Garry Trudeau

Career, Getting, Newspapers

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
Garry Trudeau

Time, Trying, Lifestyle

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Cartoonist

Born: July 21, 1948

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