American - Cartoonist | March 24, 1911 - December 18, 2006
I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.
Joseph Barbera
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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.
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I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.
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I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.
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I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.
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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.
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I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
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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.
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Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.
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Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
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Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.
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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.
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