Top 47 Quotes & Sayings by Mike Judge

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Last updated on November 25, 2024.

Michael Craig Judge is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director and musician. He is the creator of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head, and the co-creator of the television series King of the Hill (1997–2010), The Goode Family (2009), Silicon Valley (2014–2019), and Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus (2017–2018). He wrote and directed the films Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996), Office Space (1999), Idiocracy (2006), and Extract (2009), and co-wrote the screenplay to Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022).

American - Producer | Born: October 17, 1962

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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.

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I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in 'The Nutty Professor'. I really liked that.

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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.

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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.

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

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I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else.

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I didn't think I would make this much money.

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I don't think any movie I would do would be too serious or serious at all.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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I put the storyboard down and came back to it like two weeks later and saw that I had written 'Butt-Head' next to the picture, and it kind of made me laugh and I thought, Well, might as well go for every laugh you can get.

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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?

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

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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.

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I think at the point when they were first starting to talk about a movie, it was a little bit different back then.

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I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.

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Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.

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I don't return anybody's calls unless it's going to mean extra money for me. And I've completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I've copped an attitude.

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I've got a huge, gigantic deal. We're talking about huge deals.

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I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.

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

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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.

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All the Disney lead male characters always have this kind of John Davidson kind of look to them. They all look like the same guy, and all the females look like the same, and I think the guys are just way too big.

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I've seen a lot of pairs of guys that have been hanging out together way too long-until they're laughing all the time.

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You ought to try being cruel to some people.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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You look at material a different way when your ass is on the line financially for it. You want to know where the big laughs are, and how we're going to sell this.

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I'm sorry I can't get into Scooby Doo on any level.

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When I worked in those offices, it was just irritating to me that somebody sat there and designed this place, never thinking that you would walk from here to there, and they didn't care. The one guy designs it, gives it to the other guy, he looks at it; no one thinks about all the people that gotta walk through it. So I think the best way to show those banal moments is to be just flat and wide.

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I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.

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I probably drive casting people crazy because I'm not thinking about actors so much as real people.

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I'm fine watching stuff on tape, to me casting is the most painful part of the whole process, it's like going on a horribly awkward date every five minutes for eight hours, and people come in and they'll be someone good but they're not right, and you want to tell them they're good, but it sounds like BS, and they're looking at your face to see how they did, what adjustments they need, and it's just so emotionally draining, and it goes on and on.

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There was a time when cell animation was poison, but after Family Guy now everyone wants it.

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When you make movies, you've picked the most expensive art form, and somebody has to pay for it. You kind of owe it to them to at least let them know how you expect to make it as accessible to as many people as you can, given the story you're telling.

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It kind of hit me at some point during the process that most people in the film business - not just the executives, the people who make them, too - tend to come from pretty upper-class backgrounds. If they go work a job, it's to have that experience, that sort of thing. After they graduate college, they have time to go visit Europe and take some time off and get their heads together. That kind of thing, I sure didn't have.

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I often feel that my life, much like my shows, will end on a cliffhanger.

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Yeah, sometimes it gets a little sappy for me, but I'm tired of hearing about dysfunctional families in sitcoms. That's been done to death, and that's probably what everybody expected from me. But that's not what I wanted to do.

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When you work for other people you'll find ... that they do know what's best for them, and for the company. And you should listen to them and be respectful, but they don't know what's best for you.

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Sometimes I go to a test screening and look at the audience in line, and I start to go, "Okay, I bet this is going to work, and this isn't going to work." It's weird, but just going and facing the music and putting it out before a crowd, even before it starts playing, that exercise of putting it up on a screen for people makes you realize things even before it starts rolling. It's really weird. I've heard other people say that, too.

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I actually saw a kid and went home and drew him. I don't even know who he was. I was buying a TV set in Circuit City. I was looking at this kid and he was kind of standing there, staring off into space. Kids are pretty chubby nowadays because of all the fast-food places. I grew up eating fast food but now everything is double beef and double cheese. So there are a lot of these chubby boys with long, baggy shorts.

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Top 47 Quotes & Sayings by Mike Judge

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