Top 38 Quotes by Joseph Barbera

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

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.

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.

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

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 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.

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.