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What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.
— Joseph Barbera
When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.
— 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
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 hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.
— Joseph Barbera
Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.
— 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
Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.
— 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
I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
— Joseph Barbera
Except for me, no one in my family could draw.
— Joseph Barbera
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
— Joseph Barbera
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
— Joseph Barbera
I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.
— Seth MacFarlane
I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.
— Joseph Barbera
Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.
— Joseph Barbera
I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.
— Joseph Barbera
What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.
— Joseph Barbera
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
— Joseph Barbera
After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.
— Joseph Barbera
Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.
— 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
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
You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.
— Joseph Barbera
Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.
— Joseph Barbera
The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.
— 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
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
Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.
— Joseph Barbera
I started working at Hanna-Barbera in '92 on 2 Stupid Dogs.
— Craig McCracken
Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
— Joseph Barbera
I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.
— Joseph Barbera
I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.
— Joseph Barbera