Top 38 Quotes by Joseph Barbera

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

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

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

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

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.

You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.

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.

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.