Joseph Barbera famous quotes

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Hard Work #Character #Mean

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Ideas #Age #Stones

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Dream #Order #Racist

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Years

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Light #Long #Facts

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Years #Pieces #Recognition

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Play #Actors #Rats

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Religious #Religion #Majesty

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Drinking #Sleep #Animator

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Jobs #Men #Years

Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Children #Character #Parent

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Writing #Attractive #Autobiography

Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Years #Office #Dots

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Years #Should #Impulsive

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Fall #Empires #Lasts

My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Running #Men #Cartoon

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Dream #Tired #Cartoon

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Years #Rejection #Violation

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.
-- Joseph Barbera

#My Family #Draws

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Choices #Teeth #Dentist

I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Ideas #Laughing #Rooms

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Way #Publicity #Thrill

Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Years #Glory #Mgm

I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Hate #Fishing #Car

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Disappointment #California #Despair

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Creating #Fantasy #Process

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Stars #Real #Character

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Fighting #Romantic Love #Boxing

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Kids #More Time #Alone Time

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Laughter #Real #Heartless

Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Needs #Want #Littles

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Cartoon #Done #Magazines

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Television #Phases #Bills

So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.
-- Joseph Barbera

#Long #Important #Negative