Top 48 Barbera's Quotes

#1. 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

Barbera's Quotes #4088
#2. I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #61741
#3. Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #76754
#4. 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

Barbera's Quotes #105922
#5. I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #132871
#6. Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #153317
#7. If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, 'Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons,' and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very high recognition factors and great films, but no organized plans for really making the most of them and increasing their value.

Fred Seibert

Barbera's Quotes #176732
#8. I just find 'Scooby-Doo' unwatchable. I can't stand it. I like all those other Hanna-Barbera shows about a thousand times more than 'Scooby-Doo.'

Dana Snyder

Barbera's Quotes #224871
#9. Up until the time Turner Broadcasting bought Hanna-Barbera, it was essentially an independent studio whose planning cycle had to be nine months. You got a pickup in January, and you put it on the air in September. That's been the cycle.

Fred Seibert

Barbera's Quotes #278547
#10. Negativity is mind pollution!

Daphne Blake from Be Cool Scooby-Doo!

Hanna-Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #299761
#11. Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #306804
#12. 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

Barbera's Quotes #317516
#13. 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

Barbera's Quotes #390274
#14. What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #425799
#15. Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #446781
#16. My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #509251
#17. 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

Barbera's Quotes #559568
#18. 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

Barbera's Quotes #651796
#19. The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #736271
#20. 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

Barbera's Quotes #753496
#21. I started working at Hanna-Barbera in '92 on 2 Stupid Dogs.

Craig McCracken

Barbera's Quotes #772365
#22. 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

Barbera's Quotes #834671
#23. When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #846496
#24. Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #856242
#25. 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

Barbera's Quotes #899105
#26. I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.

Kurt Sutter

Barbera's Quotes #910128
#27. 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

Barbera's Quotes #924765
#28. I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #927843
#29. After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #967223
#30. I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #1075557
#31. 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

Barbera's Quotes #1131556
#32. I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.

Seth MacFarlane

Barbera's Quotes #1145136
#33. You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #1205057
#34. Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #1221954
#35. One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #1303204
#36. My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #1430328
#37. 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

Barbera's Quotes #1489963
#38. I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #1573854
#39. 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

Barbera's Quotes #1595119
#40. That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #1611716
#41. I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #1636492
#42. 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

Barbera's Quotes #1685336
#43. Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

John Kricfalusi

Barbera's Quotes #1699943
#44. 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

Barbera's Quotes #1720306
#45. 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

Barbera's Quotes #1767795
#46. 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

Barbera's Quotes #1836725
#47. So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #1867374
#48. Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

Joseph Barbera

Barbera's Quotes #1867697

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