Joseph Barbera quotes

Joseph Barbera was an American cartoonist, director, and producer, best known as the co-founder of Hanna-Barbera. His creative talent led to the creation of some of the most beloved animated series, including Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, and Scooby-Doo. He helped shape the history of animation and left a lasting legacy in popular culture. Here are 32 of his quotes:

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)
While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family. View quote
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I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day. View quote
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I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons. (Joseph Barbera)
Except for me, no one in my family could draw. View quote
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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. View quote
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What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter. View quote
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I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall. View quote
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Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot. View quote
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I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year. View quote
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After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines. (Joseph Barbera)
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. View quote
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When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking. View quote
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That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming. View quote
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There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more. View quote
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Joseph Barbera

Joseph Barbera - Image
Photo: Kerry Cisneroz, CC BY 3.0
Occupation: American Cartoonist
Born: March 24, 1911
Died: December 18, 2006
Quotes count: 32