Cartoon Quotes

I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.

If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.

When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them.

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

I'm like a Dilbert cartoon.

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.

Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.

Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

I can do a really high-pitched cartoon voice. Everybody always say they like that.

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'

Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.

Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.

Many thanks for all of the love and good wishes sent our way from my friends out there in cartoon land... the only place where a nine month pregnant woman can still play a hot goth chick in a belly shirt!

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

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

On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she's a little more edgy and snappy.