Joseph Barbera Quotes & Sayings

38 most famous Joseph Barbera quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American cartoonist who passed away on 18 December, 2006.

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

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

“Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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 about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.”

“While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.”

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