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.
I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family. - Joseph Barbera
I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
- 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 never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.
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
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.
I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day. - Joseph Barbera
I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.
The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor. - Joseph Barbera
The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming. - Joseph Barbera
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in. - Joseph Barbera
I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.
Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally. - Joseph Barbera
Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.
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 ou… - Joseph Barbera
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 ou…
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