Joseph Barbera Quotations

So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.

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.

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

The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

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

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.

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

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.

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.