A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.
It's sort of frustrating. I've been at this for 12 years, and you'd think all the work means something. Well, not necessarily.
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
We're able to tell the truth in a way that you can't tell with real people. I think because it's animated, you um, you have enough of a barrier to say things that people might find offensive or be sort of appalled, or the censors would go 'no way', you know, because it's animated.
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
Smith has joked about her lack of vocal range in comparison to her Simpsons costars, saying she only has three voices: her own, Lisa's, and one that's somewhere in between.
As a child she was taunted because of her name. Her classmates would refer to her as Yard Weed, Yard Dog, Yard Bird, Yardstick, to name a few.
She enjoys produces art for notecards.
She was married to Christopher Grove from 1990-1992, until they divorced. She has been married to Daniel Erickson since 2002.
She is American but was born in Paris, France where her father served as a correspondent with UPI.
Yeardley admitted on The Jane Pauley Show that she had struggled with bulimia for 25 years. Coincidentially, her character Lisa Simpson suffered through an eating disorder in the episode "Sleeping with the Enemy". She is currently performing in a one-woman show called More where she exposes her eating disorder. Yeardley has been binge-purge free for two years as of February 18, 2005.
Originally read for the role of Bart when auditioning for The Simpsons (1989), but her voice was too high and sounded like a girl, so she lightened her voice up a little and auditioned and won the role of Lisa. Ironically, Nancy Cartwright originally read for Lisa, but was given the role of Bart.
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