Marriage Quote by Nancy Cartwright

Cartwright’s joke works because it punctures the polite fiction that voice acting is “just a job” you clock out of at 5 p.m. She’s answering the question people always want to ask a performer who lives inside iconic characters: does that persona leak into real life? The first clause sets a boundary in the most unignorable way possible - sex - then slams it shut with Bart, the eternal 10-year-old. That’s not just prudishness; it’s a comic ethics line. Bart’s voice is instantly coded as childhood and mischief, so invoking it in an adult bedroom is deliberately absurd, even faintly taboo. The laugh comes from how quickly the mind does the math.

Then she flips the premise. If Bart is off-limits, Marge is negotiable. Marge’s voice is maternal, breathy, smoky in its own way - a caricature of the sitcom mom that also, in adult ears, can read as oddly intimate. Saying it “turns him on a little” is a carefully calibrated admission: small enough to feel plausible, spicy enough to satisfy the audience’s curiosity, and human enough to keep the celebrity mystique from hardening into reverence.

Context matters: Cartwright is famous for voicing Bart, yet she’s publicly associated with a whole vocal universe from The Simpsons. The line is both brand management and self-defense. She controls the narrative by being funnier than the question, turning invasive fascination into a punchline while reminding us that pop culture doesn’t just live in our heads - it follows people home.