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38 quotes by Joseph Barbera

Joseph Roland "Joe" Barbera (/bɑrˈbɛrə/ bar-BERR-ə or /ˈbɑrbərə/ BAR-bər-ə; March 24, 1911 – December 18, 2006) was an Italian-American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist, whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the 20th century. Through his young adult years, Barbera lived, attended college, and began his career in New York City. After working odd jobs...
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That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

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

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