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Joseph Barbera (Comic Artist)

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

— Joseph Barbera choice

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

— Joseph Barbera dream

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

— Joseph Barbera success

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

— Joseph Barbera rules

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.

— Joseph Barbera city

Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.

— Joseph Barbera hell

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

— Joseph Barbera marriage

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.

— Joseph Barbera art

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.

— Joseph Barbera hope

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

— Joseph Barbera men

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

— Joseph Barbera character

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

— Joseph Barbera power

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.

— Joseph Barbera war

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

— Joseph Barbera family

Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.

— Joseph Barbera

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

— Joseph Barbera

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

— Joseph Barbera life

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 thought

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

— Joseph Barbera man

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

— Joseph Barbera writing

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

— Joseph Barbera world

You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.

— Joseph Barbera wild

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

— Joseph Barbera man

I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.

— Joseph Barbera hate

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

— Joseph Barbera light

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