Mike Judge Quotes

You ought to try being cruel to some people.

You know, at that age you want to show everyone else how wild you are. It’s a combination of being bored, looking for a cheap thrill and being really stupid – a dangerous combination.

Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?

Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.

When the show started out, it was like all of a sudden we had to do 35 episodes and we had just a month and a half to write them, and it took me a while to realize that I was in charge.

When I was a kid it was like, who could be the coolest? Who could do the stupidest thing? And you knew it was a stupid thing to do, but you would do it just so you could be the coolest guy. And then you end up doing really cruel crap.

They’re free because they don’t know any, better. So they can just run around and do whatever, and do whatever, and most of the time they don’t get caught.

They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it’s satirizing the people who watch MTV.

They don’t make you pay for the humor. It’s up and down, but they’re trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

Susie Lynn, the producer of those segments, goes in and lays all the voices over the video.

Stealing, you’ll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

She defaced my fly. And I’ve never been the same since.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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