Joseph Barbera Quotes

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

After, Rejection, Year

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.
Joseph Barbera

Help, Laugh, Idea

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.
Joseph Barbera

Old, Personal, Getting

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

Bad, Choice, Tried

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

Long, Everything, Learned

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.
Joseph Barbera

Idea, Bible, Stories

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.
Joseph Barbera

Hell, Scared, Tiring

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

Dreams, Keep, Order

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

Done, After, Started

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

Great, Among, Glories

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.
Joseph Barbera

Movies, Start, Both

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

Personal, Process, Creating

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

Family, Except, Draw

Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.
Joseph Barbera

Good, Business, Made

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

Age, Family, Cannot

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

Time, Alone, Kid

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

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

Looking, Outside, Spent

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.
Joseph Barbera

Hope, Him, Point

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

Life, Tired, Dream

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.
Joseph Barbera

Thought, Enough, Before

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
Joseph Barbera

Play, Actor, Convinced

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.
Joseph Barbera

Good, Romantic, Made

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

Failure, Thought, Lives

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

Work, Successful, Character

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Cartoonist

Born: March 24, 1911

Died: December 18, 2006

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