Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Ebersol

He told me this incredible story that Walt's first really big production as a cartoonist for the cinema had been a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which was before Mickey. And for reasons that aren't still totally clear to me, Walt lost those rights. He didn't have the money to hold onto them.

Once you cartoon for a few years, you can't possibly do anything else. Everything else just feels like work.

Ibrahim Hooper

We have expressed the Muslim community's concerns about a variety of images of the Prophet Mohammed, whether it be in textbooks, editorial cartoons or even in the Supreme Court.

People who have been to Pakistan know it's people are very friendly, but the shootings and the cartoon incidents may shake investors, including Chinese.

Michael Leunig

I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe. But one regret as I get older is that I haven't been radical and wild enough.

Steven Pinker

If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks.

Tom Hanks

We are all God's animated cartoons.

Petra Haden

I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

The IIC wants cartoon villains, not the truth. Mr. Sevan has now reached a point in his dealings with the IIC where he questions the Committee's commitment to objective and evenhanded fact-finding and doubts he can receive a fair hearing in this forum.

Joseph Barbera

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

Johnny Depp

For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?

The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.

Ibrahim Hooper

The cartoons were published with the stated intent of incitement and insult.

The cartoons have sparked a fire. The question now is: How do we put out that fire?

Flemming Rose

The cartoons did nothing that transcends the cultural norms of secular Denmark, and this was not a provocation to insult Muslims.

Lucy Liu

I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.

John Goodman

I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.

Paul Conrad

If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.

John Hench

We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there.

Lynda Barry

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.

John Kricfalusi

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.

I'm very fond of the strictly visual cartoons I did when I was breaking in in the 1970's. Over time I migrated to a more verbal approach.

Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn't appear until 2000.

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

I was the founder of the Cartoon Bank in the 90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.

There are no cartoons about happy marriages.

Stephen Hawking

I like physics, but I love cartoons.

Roz Chast

I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

Roz Chast

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

Zac Efron

I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

Walt Disney

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.

Richard M. Nixon

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.

Robert Crumb

I didn't invent anything; it's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes.