Joseph Barbera Quotes

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.

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• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

  

  Quintilian
  • Perfection
  • Which
  • Soon

• I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Feel

• Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Culture
  • Movies
  • Big

• I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think
  • Television
  • Visual

• If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Process

• There is a lot more to me than just being a crazy fighter.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Crazy
  • More
  • Fighter

• I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Work
  • Positive
  • Negativity

• The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Mother
  • English
  • Magic

• I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Experienced
  • Fallen

• Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Words

• How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Action
  • Desire
  • Security

• My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Movies
  • Normal
  • Eighteen

• The special relationship between twins is that, if there's anyone else in the world that's going to get or be the confidant that you need, it's an identical twin.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Twin

• It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Sin
  • Grace

• I started playing around with GoPros on my own to get some cool footage. But it's actually become a big training tool for my team and me.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Team
  • Cool
  • Training

• A girl can never have too many lipstick options!

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Girl
  • Lipstick
  • Options

• It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Life
  • Time
  • Positive

• I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Time
  • Done
  • Movie

• The title's 'Cowboys & Aliens,' so you can get away with a lot if you chose to. You could make it the union of Cowboys Movies and Alien Movies and done whatever was convenient at any given moment. I think that's what most people would do, especially if you went broader and more comedic. Do whatever's the most fun in the moment.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • People
  • Done
  • Fun

• There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• 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