Cartoon Quotes

• There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue.

  

  Paul Conrad
  • Feels
  • Certain
  • Issues

• And there were sort of three toys for boys and three toys for girls. And the boys I can remember was, well, there was a Dan Dare Ray Gun. Dan Dare was a sort of a cartoon character. He was just sort of a - he was like a Battle of Britain fighter pilot, only in space.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Character
  • Girl
  • Gun

• Rugrats was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.

  

  Michael Angarano
  • Kids
  • Growing
  • Cartoon

• There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well, that's not me. I'm just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing.' But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead of the head's understanding.

  

  Michael Leunig
  • Character
  • Understanding
  • Lonely

• So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound. My parents take life way to seriousely. I lke to make people laugh. I had a regular cartoon feature in the school news paper and created some for the year book. Social satire stuff. I've done a couple of political cartoons for wisteria's paper and just got one accepted in Easton's, which has a much bigger circulation. Impressed?

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Writing
  • School
  • Book

• I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.

  

  Gerard Depardieu
  • Character
  • Culture
  • Humane

• Blows the lid off a decades-long conspiracy to secretly educate cartoon viewers

  

  David X. Cohen
  • Blow
  • Educate
  • Conspiracy

• I'm not saying I talk to cartoon characters all the time, but the characters are very real to me. In a very non-insane way.

  

  Paul Dini
  • Real
  • Characters
  • Cartoon

• I never tried to make a cartoon for a certain age bracket. I just tried to make entertaining pictures. That's why they still play and why they play so well in foreign countries. Country Cartoon Age Certain Entertaining Play Stills Wells Brackets Foreign Countries

  

  Walter Lantz
  • Countries
  • Entertaining
  • Foreign

• I was a huge fan of that Cyborg growing up as a kid because that was when the original cartoon show was on, and Khary Payton is a master at what he does.

  

  Ray Fisher
  • Growing
  • Because
  • Original

• I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Hell
  • Cartoon
  • Bent

• Actually, cartoon characters do exist.

  

  Robert Trujillo Black Label Society
  • Cartoon

• I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to see the artist's line in better detail, and what kind of ink they use - whether they like a cold black or a warm black, and what kind of paper they like, how big or small they like to draw - art nerd stuff like that.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Art
  • Black
  • Kind

• I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does.

  

  Michael Caine
  • School
  • Boys
  • Grandpa

• Seohyun's so pure that if Seohyun wasn't a singer, she'd still be singing nursery rhymes. Seohyun watches TV until 2am in the morning. What she watches is the cartoon channel.

  

  Choi Soo-young
  • Morning
  • Singing
  • Rhyme

• Homer Simpson has been more inspirational to me than probably any cartoon character. What he represents, I think, there's a part of that in everybody. There certainly is in me, and I love that.

  

  Michael Welch
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Beens

• Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• My first encounter with Cyborg was through the 'Teen Titans' cartoon.

  

  Ray Fisher
  • Through
  • Cartoon
  • Encounter

• I actually learned about Cyborg through the cartoon shows, and I think that's how most people learn about Cyborg.

  

  Ray Fisher
  • People
  • Learned
  • Actually

• I love wearing Converse or Vans and wear a lot of bombers or denim jackets. I'm also a bit of loser, so wear a lot of film and band T-shirts. My friends say that I look like a cartoon character because I'm always wearing the same kind of stuff.

  

  Dan Smith
  • Character
  • Look
  • Wearing

• All kinds of violence on the TV. You're not supposed to watch violence on the TV. Children, they can't watch it 'cause they're afraid maybe the kids will copy something they see on the TV. I can't even get a funny cartoon anymore because some 12-year-old somewhere watched a particularly violent episode of the Road Runner-Coyote show, and the next day, they found him at the bottom of a canyon, two giant springs strapped to his feet.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Children
  • Violence
  • Afraid

• I think loads of people see acting, when they're kids, as these magical stories that just happen within the context of the film or the play or the cartoon or whatever they're seeing. They don't imagine that there are actually people that go and do that for a living.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Kids
  • Stories
  • Imagine

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