Joseph Barbera quotes

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)
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
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
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
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
I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
Joseph Barbera
I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.
Joseph Barbera
I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.
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
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.
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)
Except for me, no one in my family could draw.
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
What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.
Joseph Barbera
I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
Joseph Barbera
Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.
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 was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.
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
Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
Joseph Barbera
After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines. (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
When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.
Joseph Barbera
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
Joseph Barbera
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
Joseph Barbera