“I wanted to be a cartoonist, and then I wanted to go into film - not a...” — Jake Tapper Quote

“I wanted to be a cartoonist, and then I wanted to go into film - not as an actor, but as a writer-director - and then I found myself during film school at the University of Southern California listening to the Clarence Thomas hearings in class on my Walkman, and I realized L.A. was not really for me.”

“Mean is easy. Mean is lazy. Mean is self-satisfied and slothful.”

“You know what takes effort? Being kind, being patient, being respectful, telling someone how you feel politely instead of just avoiding them for six weeks.”

“Obviously there's not much options when you're a cartoonist - you pretty much either work at home or rent an office I guess, and working at home just seems easier.”

“I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.”

“As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.”