Joseph Barbera

“I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.”

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

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