Explore Quotes by Joseph Barbera

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

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.

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

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.

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.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.

Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.

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

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.

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.

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.