Joseph Barbera Quotes
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My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.
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I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.
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I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
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Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.
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Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.
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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.
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One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
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I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.
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You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.
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Except for me, no one in my family could draw.
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What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.
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While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
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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.
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That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
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When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.
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I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.
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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.
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My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.
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I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
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I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.
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I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.
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I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.
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I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.
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Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.