Top 38 Quotes by Joseph Barbera

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

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.

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

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.

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.

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.