 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. |
| While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience. |
| I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive. |
| That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming. |
| You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught. |
| I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals. |
| I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it. |
| I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day. |
| After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines. |
| Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot. |
| What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter. |
| I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall. |
| I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me. |
| One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. |
| Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth. |
| When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking. |
| Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all. |
| I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving. |
| Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally. |
| 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. |
