Joseph Barbera Quotes
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Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
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Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.
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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.
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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.
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After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.
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Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
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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.
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I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.
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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.
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Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.
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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.
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Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
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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.