Joseph Barbera Quotes

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• Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
• Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
• 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…
• 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.
• That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
• Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.
• I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.
• Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
• Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.
• What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.
• 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…
• I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.
• What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.
• 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.
• After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.
• 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…
• Except for me, no one in my family could draw.
• I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
• I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.
• 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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