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Butch Hartman
8 quotes
“Timmy’s a ten year old all-American boy who just so happens to wear a pink baseball cap. He’s the star of our show. The nucleus. The center. Without him, the Godparents wouldn’t be here and we wouldn’t have any fun now, would we?”
Butch Hartman (born 1965) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Describing Timmy Turner in The Fairly OddParents’s series bible, September 1st, 1999 https://archive.org/details/fairlym-bible/page/3/mode/1up
“When you have a character like Superman -a guy that can do anything- you have to give him some sort of limitation. That’s the only way to make the stories interesting. That’s where Kryptonite comes in. And Superman’s been around for sixty years. Cosmo and Wanda have Da Rules. Da Rules is a book of rules that the Godparents have to follow. It’s their how-to manual and part of the whole Godparent package. It’s a text that dictates their every move and severely limits them in the way that Kryptonite limits Superman.”
Butch Hartman (born 1965) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Fairly OddParents Series Bible, September 1st, 1999. (Explaining why he imposes rules on Cosmo and Wanda’s magic.)
“Drawing is telling a story with pictures. Writing is telling a story with words.”
Butch Hartman (born 1965) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 7 Questions for Butch Hartman, Cartoon Superstar May 15th 2016 https://medium.com/@fredseibert/7-questions-for-butch-hartman-cartoon-superstar-9a77815094cc (When Fred Seibert asked him the difference between drawing and…
“I don’t care how talented you are: be nice to the people you work with. The person you’re rude to today could be your boss tomorrow”.”
Butch Hartman (born 1965) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Twitter, June 25th, 2017 https://x.com/realhartman/status/878840370032820224
“My real name is Elmer. I looked it up. It’s a German name. It means “please make fun of me my entire life.”
Butch Hartman (born 1965) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Twitter,October 9th ,2017.https://x.com/realhartman/status/917422962763894785
“Whenever you put yourself out there to do anything, there’s always someone who’s going to, like, try and bring you down ‘cause they’ve never done anything on their own. And so if someone doesn’t do anything and they want to like, you know, criticize, I have no time for them.”
Butch Hartman (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you guys can't do it yourselves, you shouldn't criticise anybody else. You shouldn't do it. Now another cartoonist wants to have a problem with me, that's a different story.”
Butch Hartman (born 1965) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (Hartman on YouTube, July 22nd 2018 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikQR9-nmcPY)
“People say to me, ‘Oh, you’re a cartoonist. I thought computers did all that now. I say ‘right, like we just press a button and Pinocchio happens.”
Butch Hartman (born 1965) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Twitter, March 23d, 2020