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

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

- 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

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

- 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…

- Joseph Barbera

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

- Joseph Barbera

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

- Joseph Barbera

The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.

- Joseph Barbera

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

- Joseph Barbera