Top 38 Quotes by Joseph Barbera

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

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

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

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

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

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

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.

Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.

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