Animated Quotes

• We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

  Walt Disney

  Character, Depth, World

  "How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.

  Brad Bird

  Moving, Space, Looks

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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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

  Cartoon, Puppets, Littles

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• That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Puppets, Actresses, Normal

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• Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

  John Lasseter

  Children, Sitting, Stories

  "A Minute With: Disney's John Lasseter on creating Oscar magic". Interview with Zorianna Kit, uk.reuters.com. February 25, 2010.

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• Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.

  Will Friedle

  Writing, Years, Lasts

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• Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

  Kate Fox

  Gossip, Tone, Sound

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• I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.

  Blair Underwood

  Children, Kids, Details

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• Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

  Franklin Pierce

  Patriotic, Presidential, Political

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• 'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.

  Jonah Hill

  Real, Years, Ideas

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• One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies.

  Mike Judge

  Kids, Heard, One Thing

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• Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

  Don Bluth

  Artist, Dragons, Film

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• Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Life, Happiness, Passion

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• Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

  Peter O'Toole

  Food, Artist, Ego

  "Fictional character: Anton Ego". "Ratatouille", www.imdb.com. June 22, 2007.

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• I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.

  Bill Mumy

  Writing, Years, Albums

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• Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

  Brad Bird

  Thought Provoking, Levels, Looks

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• If there's a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I'm very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine.

  Tia Carrere

  Roles, Hawaii, Proud

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

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• The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Two, Pay

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• Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Hands, Action, Emotion

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

  Stanislav Grof

  Art, Childhood, Not Interested

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• What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

  Bill Griffith

  Team, People, Over You

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• Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Trust, Truth, People

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• The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.

  Don Bluth

  Running, Sex, Rocks

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

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• I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Tv Shows, Play, Broadway

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