The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.
I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.
I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.
It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.
Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.
Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.
Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.
My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words.
Oh, I love critics. Because they love me. It's not a joke. They care.
People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.
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