Top 38 Quotes by 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.

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

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.

I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

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

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.