Cartoon Quotes - Page 17

• 'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.

  Matt Groening

  Family Guy, Swim, Adults

  "Matt Groening looks to the future". Interview With Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2009.

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• The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on 'The Simpsons' and 'Futurama' is "How do you continue to surprise the audience, but make them good surprises?" Not every surprise is good, but you want to continue jolting people.

  Matt Groening

  People, Want, Surprise

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

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• I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.

  Bil Keane

  Wall, Names, Drawing

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• I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

  Ted Turner

  Mean, Cnn, Cartoon Network

  "Ted's tears". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2002.

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• Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Dog, Wine, Thinking

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• When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up.

  Shaun White

  Girl, Growing Up, Talking

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• I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.

  Sherman Alexie

  Children, Flower, Writing

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• We tried to make it more than just a cartoon. It was a cartoon, but we tried to make it more than it was to begin with. And I have 300,000 followers from Turkey, Romania, Poland, and places over there that love Life With Louie, where it was translated into their language. They love it. They are absolutely in love with it. And it just goes to show you: no matter where you go, it's always about family.

  Louie Anderson

  Love Life, Language

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

  Umberto Eco

  Responsibility, Artist, Political

  "Don't smile when you say that" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• I wouldn't know all that I do about history, if I spent my time watching cartoons and other TV shows.

  Ann Coulter

  Source: aalbc.com

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• And all the things I thought were mistakes and I did cartoons on them. And then I think I was the first cartoonist in the country to attack the war in Viet Nam and that helped influence a whole generation of young cartoonists who later on took up the battle. And that was exciting to know that I had helped influence work of young people who were moving this forum into a better and more exciting area, out of the more by the state that political cartooning had been in.

  Jules Feiffer

  Country, War, Mistake

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I was doing cartoons and mocking white liberals, mocking the attitude of government who said to go slow, while intending to do absolutely nothing for black people, then called Negroes. And I had a lot of fun and I expressed a lot of anger. That was a thing that was important to know at that time. As I was emerging into more and more into politics that I was angry.

  Jules Feiffer

  Fun, Attitude, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Cartoons were very conservative. The country was very conservative. Although the liberals were allegedly in charge for a long time, there was a very acceptable balance what people would talk about in public. And I wanted to stretch those and move further out. And as the civil rights movement began, I started doing cartoons on that and on sit-ins and I was, along with Bill Mauldin, a great cartoonist out of World War II, arguably one of two white cartoonists doing this kind of work, Bill and me.

  Jules Feiffer

  Country, War, Moving

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.

  Jello Biafra

  Reality, Parent, Fascination

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• Usually when I sat down to draw a cartoon, it would be more of a reflection of things in my past. Or it could be something I had experienced that morning, or that week, or something I might know that's part of my background.

  Gary Larson

  Morning, Reflection, Past

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I always keep some form of cartoon or comic book with me, especially Batman - he's my favorite. The reason I keep them around is that it keeps the kid in me alive. Some older folks, they like to drink - can't wait to get old. Me? I like to stay young. I know I'm going to be get older, but I can at least be young at heart so I read these comic books so I keep myself right on that level of kid to keep me having fun on stage.

  James Monroe Iglehart

  Fun, Book, Heart

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked in comic books. So, I wasn't too proud to work in something like cartoons.

  Greg Weisman

  Book, Proud, Comic

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• One of the great things about cartoons is that they're not real - you're not watching real people and it engages your imagination. One of the cornerstones of America is that we are creative thinkers. We're innovators.

  Tim Daly

  Real, People, Imagination

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The "essence" of comics is fundamentally the weird process of reading pictures, not just looking at them. I see the black outlines of cartoons as visual approximations of the way we remember general ideas, and I try to use naturalistic color underneath them to simultaneously suggest a perceptual experience, which I think is more or less the way we actually experience the world as adults; we don't really "see" anymore after a certain age, we spend our time naming and categorizing and identifying and figuring how everything all fits together.

  Chris Ware

  Reading, Thinking, Black

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• I wouldn't do my roles if I really hated it. I've done things I hated, but I didn't go into them thinking I would hate them. I want to have fun. I don't want to go to work and not enjoy it. So if I'm swirling around on some wires, talking to Fred Flintstone, I make it the funnest I can. I also want to be good at it. I don't want to be a crap cartoon character. I want to be proud I'm a vitamin!

  Alan Cumming

  Fun, Hate, Character

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I always wanted voice over to be part of my career. Even as a child, I'd watch cartoons and know that someone was doing the voices. When I moved to L.A., my hope was that I'd do on-camera work and voice over. I've ended up doing both, but the voice over side took off in a way that I didn't expect!!

  Kari Wahlgren

  Children, Moved

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I really made the cartoon Life with Louie with one reason in mind: I didn't have a very good relationship with my dad, and we didn't all watch TV together like we should've, like you hope for, like you've seen on TV, and I wanted to make it for moms and dads and their kids. That was always my goal. And then I wanted to put real things in it. We did a thing about the homeless and won a Humanitas award for that.

  Louie Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Real

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like that cartoons are now not only animated drawings, they are a way of doing something: 'That song sounds very cartoony', or 'He has a cartoon face'. Like the word 'poetic', which usually means something different than a poem. But most of all cartoons are comforting, that's the real reason I need them.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Song, Real, Mean

  Source: www.newrafael.com

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• I'm not interested in stories. Stories are interesting but I don't think my head works that way. I remember at age 10 I dreamt of making animated cartoons as loops, something you could just project on your wall and look at from time to time. Kind of, something to stare at, something that's always there.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Wall, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.newrafael.com

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• In Poland, for a while, my books all had cartoons on the cover. I trust my publishers in each country to know what works in their individual markets.

  Jodi Picoult

  Country, Book, Individual

  Source: nudge-book.com

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