What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter. — Joseph Barbera Laughter Copy Share Image
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 Enough Copy Share Image
Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot. — Joseph Barbera Office Copy Share Image
You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught. — Joseph Barbera Baseball Copy Share Image
Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year. — Joseph Barbera Despite Copy Share Image
Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his… — Joseph Barbera Mean Copy Share Image
What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than… — Joseph Barbera Character Copy Share Image
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming. — Joseph Barbera Dreaming Copy Share Image
After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines. — Joseph Barbera Done Copy Share Image
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job… — Joseph Barbera Decent Copy Share Image
So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest… — Joseph Barbera Decline Copy Share Image
I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a… — Joseph Barbera Hospital Copy Share Image
I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day. — Joseph Barbera Learned Copy Share Image
Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when… — Joseph Barbera Crave Copy Share Image
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 Car Copy Share Image
My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned. — Joseph Barbera Impulsive Copy Share Image
Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them… — Joseph Barbera Children Copy Share Image
High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make… — Joseph Barbera Getting old Copy Share Image
In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it… — Joseph Barbera Boxing Copy Share Image
Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years. — Joseph Barbera Mgm Copy Share Image
I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall. — Joseph Barbera Actor Copy Share Image
While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience. — Joseph Barbera Catholic Copy Share Image
My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny… — Joseph Barbera Fans Copy Share Image
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. — Joseph Barbera Attractive Copy Share Image
Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally. — Joseph Barbera Creating Copy Share Image
Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners. — Joseph Barbera Business Copy Share Image
My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. — Joseph Barbera Fall Copy Share Image
I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family. — Joseph Barbera Age Copy Share Image
Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of… — Joseph Barbera Awful Copy Share Image
I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him… — Joseph Barbera Cat Copy Share Image
I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me. — Joseph Barbera Bothered Copy Share Image
The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor. — Joseph Barbera Cartoon Copy Share Image
I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it. — Joseph Barbera Bible Copy Share Image
Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad… — Joseph Barbera Dentist Copy Share Image
I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making… — Joseph Barbera Cartoons Copy Share Image
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work… — Joseph Barbera Cartoon Copy Share Image
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. — Joseph Barbera California Copy Share Image
