Quotes About Animation

Animation is very similar to sketch comedy: you have a short amount of time to do something big and ridiculous and funny.

I love doing voice-overs; I wish I could do more of them. It's a lot of fun to see how they take the voice and animate it and try to capture your own expressions and features. It's fascinating.

I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great.

I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'

Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.

It's not quite the same as other kinds of performing, but I love animation. It is just a different kind of experience. The difference is that making a live action movie you are using your whole body.

I love cartoons. So when they came to me to make Ice Age and this sequel, I was so happy.

Aside from my love of animation, as an actor I like the total lack of vanity in terms of not having to worry at all about your appearance. You don't have to deal with hair or makeup or wardrobe.

I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.

She was often excited. She liked to be excited.

tiny bag of chemicals twitched and became animate. We were on our way. Four

The blood is the life!

You know, making an animated movie is such a lonesome thing. You mostly don't see your fellow actors or anything. You go into your booth, you record all your dialogue. It's very much an issue of trust. You leave it all up to the director.

A favorite film? The first 'Ice Age' and the first 'Despicable Me.' They're the films that have introduced me to characters that I still feel extremely bonded with.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

Animation is my love, but I think there's definitely room in live-action. I mean, 'Iron Man 2' was fun, and I got to see that world.

There probably won't be an animated The Roots or Black Thought as there was, say, an animated Michael Jackson when 'The Jackson 5' cartoon show was on when we were kids.

In Japan, animation is a big part of your media diet. I moved out to Los Angeles at 9, and when I got homesick, I would watch anime.

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

All the Disney lead male characters always have this kind of John Davidson kind of look to them. They all look like the same guy, and all the females look like the same, and I think the guys are just way too big.

When 'Johnny Bravo' was going to end, I thought, 'I really need to sell something. I need a job.' So, I sat down and just sketched this little boy with a fairy godmother. I was going to do a boy version of 'Cinderella.'

This one has Olive Oyl getting it doggy-style from Popeye.

My name is Catbug. What's yours?

The pressure to get Toy Story 2 successfully made was not the high pressure of a single moment, like giving a speech or competing in a musical competition or sporting event. It was an intense, long-lasting pressure that wore people down. And it came immediately following the three-year grind of making of A Bug's Life, which was ten times as complex as the original Toy Story.