Quotes By Joseph Barbera
In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.
Joseph Barbera
Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.
Joseph Barbera
I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.
Joseph Barbera
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
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.
Joseph Barbera
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
Joseph Barbera
I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.
Joseph Barbera
I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.
Joseph Barbera
Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
Joseph Barbera
Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.
Joseph Barbera
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
Joseph Barbera
I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.
Joseph Barbera
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.
Joseph Barbera
While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
Joseph Barbera
I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
Joseph Barbera
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.
Joseph Barbera
Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.
Joseph Barbera
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.
Joseph Barbera
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.
Joseph Barbera
After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.
Joseph Barbera
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
Joseph Barbera