Quotes from Joseph Barbera

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.

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.

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

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

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.

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.

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

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

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.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

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

Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.

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

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

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

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

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

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

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.

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