Joseph Barbera quotes Born: 03/24/1911 Died: 12/18/2006 Country: usa

• After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines. (Joseph Barbera)
• Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years. (Joseph Barbera)
• 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)
• Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally. (Joseph Barbera)
• Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year. (Joseph Barbera)
• Except for me, no one in my family could draw. (Joseph Barbera)
• 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)
• Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners. (Joseph Barbera)
• 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)
• I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family. (Joseph Barbera)
• 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)
• I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me. (Joseph Barbera)
• I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it. (Joseph Barbera)
• 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)
• I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in. (Joseph Barbera)
• 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. (Joseph Barbera)
• I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day. (Joseph Barbera)
• 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)
• 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)
• I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall. (Joseph Barbera)
• 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)
• Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. (Joseph Barbera)
• 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)
• 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)
• My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. (Joseph Barbera)
• My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned. (Joseph Barbera)
• Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot (Joseph Barbera)
• One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. (Joseph Barbera)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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. (Joseph Barbera)

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