Cartoon Quotes

• All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Character, Exaggeration Is

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• 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

  Hard Work, Character, Mean

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• 100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100

  David Remnick

  Lying, People, Magazines

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• People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

  Jessica Hahn

  Giving Up, Character, People

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• 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.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Magazines, Cases, Newspapers

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• Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she's a little more edgy and snappy.

  Hilary Duff

  Character, Edginess, Littles

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• When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

  Ted Rall

  News, Information, Headlines

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• George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

  Brendan Fraser

  Swings, Guy, Vines

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

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• You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do.

  Joan Severance

  Character, Blow, People

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

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• If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Play, Musical, Reason

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• I was involved in a web cartoon of Kung Fu with WB a few years back.

  David Carradine

  Years, Kung Fu, Involved

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• I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

  Jack Abramoff

  Philosophical, Lobbying, Moral

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• I can do a really high-pitched cartoon voice. Everybody always say they like that.

  Corbin Bleu

  Voice, Can Do, I Can

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• Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.

  Patrick Warburton

  Book, Character, Steps

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

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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.

  Joseph Barbera

  Dream, Tired, Tom And Jerry

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  "Animated Architecture". Book by Derek Walker, 1982.

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• Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.

  Matthew Ashford

  Ideas, Relaxation, Everyday

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• I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting.

  John Kricfalusi

  Kids, Thinking, Long

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

  John Kricfalusi

  Wonder, Found, Wells

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• I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.

  Casey Kasem

  Voice, Would Be, Television

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• I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon

  Rachael Leigh Cook

  Acting, Want

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• I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Artist, Ideas, Portraits

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

  Paul Conrad

  Minutes, Ideals, Ifs

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• I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

  Walt Disney

  Memories, Future, Past

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• Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.

  Walt Disney

  Motivational, Jobs, Work

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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