Cartoon Quotes

#1. If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you've left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.

Jim Butcher

#2. Finn crossed his arms and glared at Volusian. It was kind of a bold move, considering Finn looked like a cartoon character and Volusian looked like he ate the souls of small children. For all I knew, he probably did.

Richelle Mead

#3. 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

#4. It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#5. Yeah! Everything is okay!

Breehn Burns

#6. I've done the voice for the Hulk for the animated cartoon.

Lou Ferrigno

#7. 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.

Tom Berenger

#8. I watch the weirdest things. I watch old episodes of 'Golden Girls' because my mom watches it, so I grew up watching that. Sometimes I watch reruns of 'Futurama,' which is a cartoon and not based in the real world at all.

Matthew Moy

#9. My God, that scene in Monster Inc. where the monsters realise that their entire world is founded on hurting children -look at that for a change! Two galumphing cartoon characters making a shattering realisation about their world and their role in sustaining it. A truly epic moment. It's stunning.

Russell T. Davies

#10. I love cartoons. So when they came to me to make Ice Age and this sequel, I was so happy.

John Leguizamo

#11. I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

Jack Abramoff

#12. Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.

Seann William Scott

#13. The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.

Slavoj Zizek

#14. It's all about being comfortable, being easy and having you be able to wear something and not having it wear you. It's classic. Every time I've tried to be bold and crazy, I feel like a Japanese animated cartoon character.

Jennifer Aniston

#15. His office was on the third floor of the Humanities & Social Sciences Building, just down the hall from the interview room. On the office door was a Peanuts cartoon of Lucy in the psychiatrist's booth with the little DOCTOR is IN sign. Professor Mitchell, a man on the cutting edge of humor.

Rick Riordan

#16. My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme and the real life extreme and finding somewhere in the middle. The animated element lures people in, but the real-life substance puts the nail in the coffin.

Busta Rhymes

#17. Blows the lid off a decades-long conspiracy to secretly educate cartoon viewers

David X. Cohen

#18. Mom removed all games that remotely suggest violence and death-but Cody's doing a good job of making harmless cartoon characters suffer in fresh and inventive ways.

Neal Shusterman

#19. My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint them just to provoke a fight and just to provoke it like thumbing your nose at someone else and going, What are you gonna do about it?

David Byrne

#20. The political cartoon, in a way, is one of the highest forms of expression about our times. I don't believe in dramatic statements when it comes to political critique. It doesn't communicate in a way that's subversive enough.

Camille Henrot

#21. American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer to a blushing cartoon than a sensual celebration.

Molly Haskell

#22. I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well.

Matt Smith

#23. hard to find a children's cartoon or movie that doesn't tell kids that they need to look inside themselves for moral guidance.

Anonymous

#24. 100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100

David Remnick

#25. I loved the movies and I loved cartoon superheroes - superheroes in general. I had all the pajama costumes and I would wear my underwear on the outside of the pajamas because that's what Superman does.

Dane DeHaan

#26. I'm fully aware that not every cartoon is Pulitzer material. That said, I'm proud of my Pulitzer portfolio, the 20 that got judged.

Steve Breen

#27. Like the name of a cartoon Belgian detective said in a Scottish accent, it's 10:10.'11 It

Alan Partridge

#28. I just like The Little Mermaid cartoon. Say what you want. I have a fish tank, it's a long story. I have a fascination with the ocean, and you put a hot chick in there, it just adds more to it! I liked The Little Mermaid. It's a cool movie. It's one of those I watch over and over again.

Gabriel Iglesias

#29. [While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#30. I love thinking of cartoon characters feeling really real feelings. And I love to do that, not just as a fan, but as a creator, so if people want to look for those levels, they're actually there.

Rebecca Sugar

#31. 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!

Grey DeLisle

#32. Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.

Chubby Checker

#33. I think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon bubble.

Amy Hempel

#34. There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances.

Natasha Leggero

#35. The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

Gary Larson

#36. The Cremulator" sounds like a cartoon villain or the name of a monster truck but is in fact the name of what is essentially a bone blender, roughly the size of a kitchen crockpot. I

Caitlin Doughty

#37. I love nothing better than a dirty cartoon. I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children.

John DiMaggio

#38. I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.

Jim Woodring

#39. You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's true of art and everything else.

Robert Mankoff

#40. I watch a lot of cartoons. I watch a lot of "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Phineas and Ferb."

Colin Kaepernick

#41. If someone's a cartoon villain, you can dismiss them, but if they behave despicably but you kind of like them, they really get under your skin.

Michel Faber

#42. Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child's ideal introduction to movie magic. Yet Walt Disney taught moral lessons in the most useful way: by scaring the poop out of the little ones.

Richard Corliss

#43. That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

Berkeley Breathed

#44. The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.

Manny Farber

#45. People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

Jessica Hahn

#46. My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.

Evan Sayet

#47. If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade ... a real change-maker represents a real threat. So your only option is to create a cartoon, a cartoon alternative, then run against the cartoon. Cartoons are two-dimensional; they're easy to absorb.

William J. Clinton

#48. So far as I am concerned, I am not at all aware that there indeed exists a serious side as well to my cartoons drawn in an inspired mood of mischievous abandon.

R. K. Laxman

#49. 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.

Jerome Lawrence

#50. I really enjoyed doing the voice of Nose Marie on the cartoon series Pound Puppies. Fun, FUN cast.

Ruth Buzzi

#51. He'd woken up after flying from Boston to Montana to find his da cooking breakfast for them: sausage and pancakes shaped like deer. It wasn't just any deer, either - they looked like Bambi from the disney cartoon. Charles didn't want to know how his father had managed that

Patricia Briggs

#52. I just felt like there was a world of cartoon voices that had to be discovered by me.

Tom Kenny

#53. I just watched cartoons for three years, and that had a strong affect on me.

Johnny Depp

#54. In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'

Margaret Thatcher

#55. I gotta say, I was really feeling the robe, but there's something about a girl in cartoon pajamas that does it for me.

Stacey O'Neale

#56. We could just as reasonably base our number system on eight (if we were cartoon characters) or four (if we were lobsters) or even two (if we were dolphins).

Charles Petzold

#57. Yeah but I don't know how to make myself go there. Maybe it might never happen again. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

Breehn Burns

#58. Political cartoons are the ass-end of the artform

Ivan Brunetti

#59. Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium cartoon animation towards new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.

Walt Disney

#60. Some things that I write, you'll see a page with cartoon pictures or a drawing of a car - like a Ford - or a flag. I still do it on an occasion when a word is strange to me.

Andrae Crouch

#61. It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapons, catapult and peashooter, will no longer pick on Walter the Softy, and his ferocious grimace is to be replaced by a charming, boyish smile.

Simon Hoggart

#62. Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea.

Dave Rowntree

#63. Note to self: Try to stop reacting to surprises like a cartoon character.
Jane Jameson

Molly Harper

#64. When I was a kid, 'Scooby Doo' was, hands down, my favorite cartoon. Even when I was older, when I was in college studying and I needed to tune out for a while, I'd watch 'Scooby Doo.'

Linda Cardellini

#65. There was a sink for washing glasses and an assortment of cartoon napkins illustrating the lighter side of alcoholism.

David Sedaris

#66. 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.'

Lev Yilmaz

#67. We don't talk about the danger
but what I imagine is a cartoon version, bullets flying and each boy a super hero, running, invincible, through a spray of gunfire.

Christina Baker Kline

#68. [Voicing a cartoon] feels like going down a mysterious but joyful black hole. Once you relax for 15 or 20 minutes, and really go, "I don't care if I look like an ass," it's really fun to see what happens. You know that nothing is being visually judged.

Jim Parsons

#69. Maybe I'm some sort of perverted cartoon-sexual.

Rainbow Rowell

#70. The whole idea of rock and roll lifestyle is a cartoon. It's a caricature. And at times, it's made up of people emulating others; a few who actually live that lifestyle and many who claim to live that lifestyle.

Paul Stanley

#71. I am going to name a group of my kids after my favorite cartoons, I am going to name them after Transformers.

Dane Cook

#72. Over the years, I have been approached about making Ramona into a cartoon or movie, but I was afraid that no one could really capture the spunky character of Ramona.

Beverly Cleary

#73. 'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.

Matt Groening

#74. I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man.

Daniel Sean Kaye

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

John Leguizamo

#76. I was traumatized by the cartoon version of 'The Hobbit.' It's not supposed to be scary, I don't think, but literally I think that's the most scared I've ever been.

Emily Meade

#77. As for the coyote, he was nothing like his cartoon icon. He was sleek, fast, healthy and apparently without an anvil or Acme product of any kind.

Doug Fine

#78. The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other ... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

Ann-Margret

#79. Doing the voice for something [cartoon] requires an enormous amount of energy and you really have to use your whole body. It's cool.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

#80. Seohyun's so pure that if Seohyun wasn't a singer, she'd still be singing nursery rhymes. Seohyun watches TV until 2am in the morning. What she watches is the cartoon channel.

Choi Soo-young

#81. Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its spray.

Bob Garfield

#82. You don't expect everyone out there watching to believe that this cartoon is real, that this drawing has really come to life. But on some level, you do. You try to cast a spell. You want the world to feel real. It's a nerdy pursuit.

Loren Bouchard

#83. Mine is a stubborn and recalcitrant faith. It's all elbows and motion and kicked-up dust, like cartoon characters locked in a cloudy brawl. I'm still early in my journey, but I suspect it will go on like this for a while, perhaps until my last breath.

Rachel Held Evans

#84. I thought it was kind of funny when Dionysus ran a Dark-Hunter over with a Mardi Gras float a couple of years ago. That amused me for days on end. He laughed like an evil cartoon villian.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#85. Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

Matt Groening

#86. CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't feel any real risk. You're watching a bunch of computer-generated graphics.

Karen Allen

#87. When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you're playing a cartoon character.

Willem Dafoe

#88. For me, off the field, cartoons are something that can ease my mind and get me back into having fun and just relaxing.

Colin Kaepernick

#89. All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't

Jeff Smith

#90. I did take some voiceover classes. I always loved the idea of doing a voice for a cartoon character. I just voiced the character of Suzi X in the upcoming 'The Haunted World of El Superbeasto.'

Sheri Moon Zombie

#91. What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.

Walt Disney

#92. They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

Muhammad Ali

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

Kathy Najimy

#94. I paused in the act of opening the door and looked at him with what were probably cartoon-wide eyes. "Wait a second," I said. "So, you're best friends with a hot vampire chick who likes leather."
"Yeah."
"And together, you fight crime?" I couldn't help it. I cracked up.

Rachel Caine

#95. High school girls came bustling along, their rosy red cheeks puffing white breaths you could have written cartoon captions in.

Haruki Murakami

#96. Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

Dolly Parton

#97. I think you can get away with so much more offensiveness when you're operating behind a stuffed teddy bear or a cartoon or something that's not real, because it's forgiven. It's like having a little kid in a movie curse - it's funny because it's not natural.

Mila Kunis

#98. I was honestly a cartoon kid. I loved cartoons. That was more my dream than anything else. But now, it's the films of people like John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Those are the kinds of characters I want to play, and that's the kind of filmmaking I'm fascinated by.

Tatiana Maslany

#99. I named myself Flash many years ago, as I loved the cartoon. Then my own fans said that I should call myself 'Grandmaster,' because of the way I operate turntables. I put the two together and that was it.

Grandmaster Flash

#100. He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than his real life.

Sherman Alexie