Famous Quotes & Sayings

Flemming Rose

I commissioned the cartoons in response to several incidents of self-censorship in Europe caused by widening fears and feelings of intimidation in dealing with issues related to Islam.

Pakistan now needs to put Chinese investors at ease. Especially with the cartoon incident, investors need to feel they won't be threatened.

Beverly Cleary

Over the years, I have been approached about making Ramona into a cartoon or movie, but I was afraid that no one could really capture the spunky character of Ramona.

Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.

Fred Seibert

Cartoon Hangover has given us another place we felt we could find the most talented people around the world and give them a chance to make the films they want to make and match it up with their audience.

Will Ferrell

When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons - it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn't wait. I loved it so much.

When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union.

For an encore, I might do health-care cartoons using my own blood. That will be my last act.

Natasha Leggero

There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.

Emily Meade

I was traumatized by the cartoon version of 'The Hobbit.' It's not supposed to be scary, I don't think, but literally I think that's the most scared I've ever been.

Margaret Weis

The only cartoon I ever liked was 'Fantasia.'

When I worked in the military, I would take off the lab coat before giving a shot. I'd wear a tie with cartoon characters -- something for the children to focus on instead of the needle.

Ed Asner

I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.

Roz Chast

The wonderful thing about the cartoon form is it's a combination of words and pictures. You don't have to choose, and the contribution of the two often winds up being greater than the sum of its parts.

Bill Plympton

I don't see why it's such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film.

Gene Luen Yang

I general don't color my stuff - I'm pretty horrible with color. Usually, I'll get one of my cartoonist friends to help me out.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity.

Gary Coleman

I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.

Gary Larson

The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.

We thought it was very important to tell our readers that the reaction to these cartoons was outrageous and that reaction needed some sort of condemnation by the free world and that this was inappropriate and we needed to speak up.

We've been recession proof, which is nice. There has never been in a slump at the Cartoon Bank.