Cartoon Quotes - Page 2

• I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

  Pat Oliphant

  Artist, Happens

  Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.74, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.

  Walt Disney

  Glasses, Entrepreneur, Fairytale

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• What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?

  Mr. Krabs

  Character, Yesterday, Today

  "Fictional character: Mr. Krabs". TV Series "SpongeBob SquarePants" ("Dying for Pie/Imitation Krabs", 2000), www.imdb.com. 1999-.

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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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• At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.

  Mort Walker

  Tables, Want, Burden

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• But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.

  Bootsy Collins

  Play, Trying, Way

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• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  Walt Disney

  Jobs, Animal, Disney Animation

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• I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

  John Lasseter

  Careers, People, I Realized

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• My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.

  Joseph Barbera

  Running, Men, Fans

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

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• I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.

  Gerard Depardieu

  Character, Ideas, Culture

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• It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that it has a big heart at its center. Other cartoon shows have people crap on each other and make racist jokes. But I don't think people tune in for that. I just don't think a show lasts for 10 years without a heart.

  Trey Parker

  Heart, Thinking, Years

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

  Lucy Liu

  Competing, Ifs

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• I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

  Pat Oliphant

  Thinking, Half, Dozen

  "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20 and 21, 1997.

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• In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.

  John Hench

  Morning, Play, Trying

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• There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue.

  Paul Conrad

  Issues, Looks, News

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• 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.

  Zac Efron

  Tunes, Fundamentals, Taught

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• And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

  Rube Goldberg

  Book, Paper, Six

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• I really enjoyed doing the voice of Nose Marie on the cartoon series Pound Puppies. Fun, FUN cast.

  Ruth Buzzi

  Fun, Voice, Noses

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• Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.

  Randy Quaid

  Voice, Actors, Want

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• You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.

  Patrick Warburton

  Fun, Pants, Busy

  "Patrick Warburton on 'Hoodwinked'". Interview with Michael J. Lee, movies.radiofree.com. December 12, 2005.

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• I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

  Patricia Heaton

  Book, Shopping, Long

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• No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

  Chris Ware

  Art, Real, Thinking

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• Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced work of such sophistication, wit, and beauty that it increasingly seems to me that cartoon evolution is working backward. Comic strips are moving toward a primordial goo rather than away from it . . . Not only can comics be more than we're getting today. but the comics already have been more than we're getting today.

  Bill Watterson

  Moving, Done, Today

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• Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Done, Painting, Influence

  Roy Lichtenstein, David Sylvester, Galerie Lawrence Rubin (1997). “Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings”

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• When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

  Douglas Coupland

  Miracle, Would Be, Fabric

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