Cartoon Quote by Mort Walker Download Open image “I first sold a cartoon for five dollars. I was in the fifth grade.” — Mort Walker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cartoon Dollars Fifth grade First Five Grade
I'd been working since I was eleven so I could buy my own comic books. I was that kid knocking on your door, selling… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought… — Guy Fieri Copy Share Image
I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go. — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something. — Joshua Greenberg Copy Share Image
The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old… — Patrick Lussier Copy Share Image
In high school, my whole life was movies and comic books. I spent all my allowance on comic books. — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
I started selling in the early '90s, because at 18 years old, it's tough to go to your parents and say, 'Can I have… — John Dolmayan Copy Share Image
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I grew up in the '70s, early '80s as a kid, and when we first immigrated to this country I went to a 7-Eleven and for the first time in my life I saw... back in the day they had this little spinning comic book rack, and there were comic books and I was basically drawn to them. — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share
My father was a dreamer who was always broke. He wanted to be a cartoonist. — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
Professionals don't get writer's block. I can always come up with the punch line. — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
Beetle is the embodiment of everybody's resistance to authority, all the rules and regulations which you've got to follow. He deals with it in… — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
Life is like a game of chess...there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move...where you wind up is the sum… — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
I've always said that what cartoonists do is create friends for readers. — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
I go to the grocery store with my wife. She goes off to buy something. Where is she, anyways? So I ask the manager,… — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
Beetle Bailey is actually me, in uniform. I've got about 20 characters, and they're all after friends of mine. — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
Most people are sort of against authority. Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it. — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one… — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
“Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. Seven days without laughter makes one weak.” — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it. — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
I just watched cartoons for three years, and that had a strong affect on me. — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and an animated… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that it has a big… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
The thing that was interesting to me about Relationshapes - as opposed to most of the other cartoons I've ever made - was I… — David Rees Copy Share Image
If you were to look at an old 'Betty Boop' cartoon or an 'Out of the Ink Well' animation, there are many things about… — Fred Seibert Copy Share Image
I seem to thrive by destroying the last thing I did, in a kind of cartoon Nietzsche way. Emerson says in "Experience" something like "every ultimate fact soon becomes the next in a series." The self feels more real when you are destroying things you've made than when you are paying them homage. That's the good news about being self-destructive.… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share
I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once. — Steve Cropper Copy Share Image
