Cartoon Quotes - Page 3

• Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana.

  Don Mattingly

  Baseball, Character, Mean

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• I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

  Walt Disney

  Puppets, Littles, Firsts

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• Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Done, Painting, Influence

  Roy Lichtenstein, David Sylvester, Galerie Lawrence Rubin (1997). “Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings”

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• I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Adults, Grew Up, Grew

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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

  Done, Magazines, Satisfied

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Nice, Character, Auditions

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.

  Steve Cropper

  Years, Years Ago

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• We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.

  Tina Weymouth

  Change, Real, Light

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• On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

  Gary Larson

  School, Careers, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

  John Kricfalusi

  Running, Humor, Always Complaining

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• Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Art, Paint, Fine

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• I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

  Lynda Barry

  Sleep, Littles, Draws

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• I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

  Bill Mauldin

  Mean, Army, Men

  "Up Front". Book by Bill Mauldin, 1945.

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• I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

  Lynda Barry

  Would Be, Behind My Back, Drawers

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• Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Creepy, Doe, Watches

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• You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

  Tom Berenger

  Hero, Thinking, Villain

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• I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

  Terry Gilliam

  Political, Bombs, Makers

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• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie

  Damon Albarn

  Real, Lying, People

  "Keeping it (un)real". Interview with Neil Gaiman, www.wired.com. July 1, 2005.

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• When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

  Rube Goldberg

  Sports, Fighting, Used

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• I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

  John Lasseter

  Art, Two, Hands

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• I think cartoons are important. Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don't understand why people don't like cartoons.

  John DiMaggio

  Thinking, People, Important

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• I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

  Walt Disney

  Character, Personality, Trying

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• I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.

  Bruce McCall

  Admirer, Because I Can, I Can

  "Tuning In to the Absurd". Interview with The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2002.

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• I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

  Paul Conrad

  Ideas, Readership, Written

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• Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

  Nomar Garciaparra

  Baseball, Thinking, Idols

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