Top 100 Quotes About Cartoons
#1. I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.
William Jackson
#2. You know when you bring your voice to different voiceover things like video games and cartoons, and I do tons of stuff like that in voiceovers and whatnot, it's very fun and freeing.
Benito Martinez
#3. My agency tells me I am rare because I sing, do movie trailers, and do cartoons too. I like that because it gives me variety in jobs. I don't just sit and do movie trailers, and I don't just do cartoons either. I can do both, and I feel very fortunate for that.
Jim Cummings
#4. Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.
Steve Breen
#5. The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.
Jonathan Shapiro
#7. In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
Warren Spector
#8. More sports for everyone, group spirit, fun and you don't have to think, eh? Organize and organize and superorganize super-super sports. More cartoons in books. More pictures. The mind drinks less and less.
Ray Bradbury
#9. My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations.
Tom Tomorrow
#10. Cartoons are windows into the human condition,
Doug Marlette
#11. I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - the comics and the different cartoons and everything - have been a big ensemble. Lots of crossing storylines and stuff.
D.J. Cotrona
#12. The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.
David Sedaris
#13. When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons.
Pete Docter
#14. Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.
Ryan North
#15. It's not really a guilty pleasure, but I love old cartoons. I could watch Bugs Bunny and Tweety all day long.
Robbie Amell
#16. My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.
Gene Perret
#17. I watch cartoons the way most adults watch reality-TV shows.
Ne-Yo
#18. Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream, nobody is too old for cartoons, bald men are sexy, chocolate is the best medicine, BIG books are better, cats secretly rule the planet, and everything should be available in the color pink, including monster trucks.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#19. We apologize for the fact that the cartoons undeniably have offended many Muslims.
Carsten Juste
#20. I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.
Lynda Barry
#21. They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.
Audrey Meadows
#22. I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the "work" is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.
Roz Chast
#23. Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.
Robert Mankoff
#24. 98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.
David Remnick
#25. As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.
John Kricfalusi
#26. I was deeply distressed that the cartoons were seen by many Muslims as an attempt by Denmark to mark and insult or behave disrespectfully towards Islam or Mohammed.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
#27. As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure how I could get hired to do what Mel Blanc and Daws Butler did. Create all of these great voices for animated characters.
Jim Cummings
#28. I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.
Peter Capaldi
#29. We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.
Elayne Boosler
#30. I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a punchline or a joke at the end. My drawings don't depend on that so much.
Raymond Pettibon
#31. I like the old-school Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons. I'm talking Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian!
Colin Kaepernick
#32. No real God should need protection from bloggers and no real prophet should need protection from cartoons.
Ali A. Rizvi
#33. I dont want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundreds of speeches, getting pillared in the press and cartoons and still staying on message to win?
George W. Bush
#34. I think that cartoons have a lot more power than they're given credit for.
Jim Woodring
#35. We are all God's animated cartoons.
Tom Hanks
#36. I grew up, obviously, watching tons of animation; Saturday morning cartoons or anything that we could get our hands on. And then when 'The Simpsons' premiered, that just kind of changed the landscape of everything. We hadn't had prime time animations since 'The Flintstones.'
Rachael MacFarlane
#37. Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.'
Gary Larson
#38. The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.
Virginia Postrel
#39. Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
Bil Keane
#40. I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.
Harland Williams
#41. In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
Bil Keane
#42. The genius of cynicism is that it is a voice in your ear it does not usually hang around long enough to be interviewed. It is usually expressed in innuendos, passing remarks, moods, cartoons, hints, insinuations, unacknowledged assumptions, and jokes.
Dick Keyes
#43. My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them.
Roz Chast
#44. But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.
Bootsy Collins
#45. I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.
Bruce McCall
#46. I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.
Ernest Cline
#47. I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.
Beanie Sigel
#48. For an encore, I might do health-care cartoons using my own blood. That will be my last act.
Steve Breen
#49. Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.
Gordon Smith
#50. I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.
Nick Mancuso
#51. I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.
Bil Keane
#52. I had always wanted to do a collection of cartoons, but you have to wait until someone is actually interested.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#53. My parents played by parents, in the second season [of Suits]. We had a Skype scene and they were my real parents. My parents are cartoons. When they come up and visit, they're hilarious. My mother somehow finds a way to get in the way of everything.
Rick Hoffman
#54. I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.
Angie Harmon
#55. I don't really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch 'Adventure Time', 'The Amazing World of Gumball', and 'Looney Tunes' and old classic cartoons.
Ty Simpkins
#56. When Ben arrived, he was having a bad hair day. He looked like Francine from those Arthur cartoons on PBS, and yet I was still very attracted to him.
Courtney Robertson
#57. I've been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications - the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
Bill Watterson
#59. I also love being able to do something that kids and families can enjoy because I have two children of my own and I want them to grow up watching all the fabulous animated movies and cartoons that I loved to watch as a kid.
Amy Poehler
#60. Most cartoons are those colors. They have been for 35 years.
John Kricfalusi
#61. There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.
Josh Trank
#62. I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger.
Kari Wahlgren
#63. Cartoons for girls don't have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness. Girls like stories with real conflict; girls are smart enough to understand complex plots; girls aren't as easily frightened as everyone seems to think.
Lauren Faust
#64. Animal rights is a serious subject, but I do my best to find humor where I can, and I have some great help: there are almost two hundred cartoons included in the book, including dozens from the brilliant Bizarro strip.
Karen Dawn
#65. And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.
Rube Goldberg
#66. I'm very fond of the strictly visual cartoons I did when I was breaking in in the 1970's. Over time I migrated to a more verbal approach.
Robert Mankoff
#67. Some of those cartoons look nothing like me.
Sarah Sutton
#68. I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
Rachel Tucker
#69. I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.
Jonathan Shapiro
#70. I used to think of the cartoons as a magazine within a magazine. First you go through and read all the cartoons, and then you go back and read the articles.
Roz Chast
#71. I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.
Brad Holland
#72. The people that are fans of animation are really the people that are keeping the art form of animation alive. If you like cartoons, support the cartoons.
Kari Wahlgren
#73. I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.
Eddie Redmayne
#74. If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
Charles M. Schulz
#75. The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
Hal Sparks
#76. Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn't appear until 2000.
Robert Mankoff
#77. Then she'd turned enough for me to get a better look, and I'd actually felt my eye bulge, like in those cartoons where the character's eyes pop out of their head, stretched until they can't stretch any more.
Cindi Madsen
#78. We're all being segregated or sent to our different rooms to watch television that's geared only for adults, to be honest. There's very little fare - outside of cartoons and a few things for children (and) I guess (some reality shows like) The Voice - that can be watched by the entire family.
Michael Landon Jr.
#79. 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
#80. Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#81. I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting.
John Kricfalusi
#82. 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
#83. With Saturday morning cartoons, you've got to start at 6 A.M., right?
Jim Rash
#84. I was just worried that someone was gonna think that I had been commissioned by Jamba Juice to make cartoons about Jamba Juice. And the big thing for me was - if I'm not getting paid to sell out, I don't want people to think that I'm selling out.
David Rees
#85. Cartoons are the best stuff on TV. 'Wonder Showzen,' 'Aqua Teen,' 'SpongeBob,' and, of course, 'South Park' - one of the funniest shows ever made.
Akiva Schaffer
#86. In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner cartoons where in the middle of the cartoon, the hand of the artist appears on the screen and erases the Road Runner.
Frederick Lenz
#87. I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#88. I'm a collector of cartoons. All the Disney stuff, Bugs Bunny, the old MGM ones. It's real escapism, it's like everything's alright. It's like the world is happening now in a far away city. Everything's fine.
Michael Jackson
#89. My cartoons haven't been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I'm more interested in campaigning about the issues.
Judy Horacek
#90. I wrote a call to the contemporary Muslim conscience, saying to the ordinary people that we might not like the video or the cartoons, but that violence certainly isn't the right answer. I don't think laws are going to solve the problem.
Tariq Ramadan
#91. It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
Kara Walker
#92. Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.
Jhonen Vasquez
#93. I don't think of cartoons or comics as being for kids.
Jeff Kinney
#94. I think, with my cartoons, the parent-like figures are kind of my own archeypes of parents, and they're taken a little bit from my parents and other people's parents, and parents I have read about, and parents I dreamed about, and parents that I made up.
Roz Chast
#95. I loved to watch cartoons and even made little stop-motion films in the backyard. At the time, I never really thought that it was something you could do for a living; it never actually hit me that people do that sort of thing or I would be capable of it.
Eric Darnell
#96. My mama didn't see it comin, my daddy was there.
What's my excuse? Cartoons were the root.
Started with Yosemite Sam
With the gun in the palm of the hand,
What couldn't I demand?
Pusha T
#97. The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.
Roz Chast
#98. Kellogg's Pop-Tarts frequently uses cartoons as part of its visual content mix to tell a fun and irreverent story around people's cravings for Pop-Tarts.
Ekaterina Walter
#100. I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.
E. J. Hughes
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