Cartoon Quotes:

I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

- Alan Shearer

source: Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2010.

topic: Football, Cartoon, Watches

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

- Alexander Payne

topic: Cartoon, Cinema, World

It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life.

- Allison Janney

topic: People, Cartoon, Watches

I think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon bubble.

- Amy Hempel

topic: Thinking, Laughing, Cartoon, Have A Laugh

I was deeply distressed that the cartoons were seen by many Muslims as an attempt by Denmark to mark and insult or behave disrespectfully towards Islam or Mohammed.

- Anders Fogh Rasmussen

source: "Rasmussen 'to give Turkey senior posts in Nato'" by Bruno Waterfied, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 6, 2009.

topic: Islam, Cartoon, Denmark

I wanted draw the cartoon characters, and then it all started to make sense as I was watching these classics come back to the theater like Lady and the Tramp and so forth. If you want to animated the dog, you have to know where the ribcage is and the hip bone and all that.

- Andreas Deja

source: Source: movieweb.com

topic: Dog, Character, Cartoon, Cartoon Character, Tramps

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

- Angie Harmon

topic: Waiting, Cartoon, Anvils

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other.. I was a cartoon character. A joke.

- Ann-Margret

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

topic: Character, Cartoon, Accepting, Cartoon Character

Nixon is fascinating because he's our most alienated president. Everybody felt that they never knew who he was - that's palpable in the histories. His face is so cartoony that he's become this cartoon figure. I never really related to the romanticization of J.F.K., and I knew too much about Reagan to idealize him. Nixon falls in between.

- Austin Grossman

topic: Fall, Cartoon, President

I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.

- Beanie Sigel

source: "Beanie Sigel keeping spirits high despite legal problems" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. July 8, 2003.

topic: Mma, Cartoon, Albums

[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

topic: Cartoon, Dignity, Kind

I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.

- Bil Keane

topic: Character, Thinking, Cartoon, Cartoon Character

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

- Bil Keane

topic: Real, Inspiration, Cartoon, Perspiration

Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its spray.

- Bob Garfield

topic: Children, Animal, Cartoon

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

topic: Play, Cartoon, Trying, Way Back When

When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them

- Brendan Fraser

topic: Character, Swings, Cartoon, Cartoon Character

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

topic: Swings, Guy, Cartoon

I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.

- Bruce McCall

source: "Tuning In to the Absurd". Interview with The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2002.

topic: Cartoon, Admirer, Because I Can

If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

- Carlos Alazraqui

source: "The Many Voices of Carlos Alazraqui" by Ryan Ball, www.animationmagazine.net. February 17, 2006.

topic: Names, People, Cartoon, Dreamworks

Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.

- Caroline Knapp

topic: Anorexia, Cartoon, Female

We apologize for the fact that the cartoons undeniably have offended many Muslims.

- Carsten Juste

topic: Apology, Cartoon, Facts

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

topic: Voice, Cartoon, Would Be, Cartoon Shows

First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.

- Charles S. Dutton

topic: Mean, Punishment, Cartoon

Seohyun's so pure that if Seohyun wasn't a singer, she'd still be singing nursery rhymes. Seohyun watches TV until 2am in the morning. What she watches is the cartoon channel.

- Choi Soo-young

topic: Morning, Singing, Cartoon, Snsd, Nursery Rhymes

Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.

- Chris Ware

topic: Real, Drawing, Cartoon

I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards.

- Conrad Black

topic: Philosophy, Long, Cartoon, Blowhards, Cartoon Shows

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

- Corbin Bleu

topic: Voice, Cartoon

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

- Damon Albarn

topic: Moving, Ideas, Cartoon

The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows

- Dan Castellaneta

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

topic: Nice, Character, Cartoon, Cartoon Shows

It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon.

- Dan Chaon

source: "Extended transcript: Emma Stone". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2017.

topic: Essence, Cartoon, Heartbreaking, Exaggerated

So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.

- Daniel Pipes

source: "A Muhammad cartoon a day" by Daniel Pipes, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

topic: Editors, Cartoon, Hamburgers, Islamists, Sacred Cows

My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint them just to provoke a fight and just to provoke it like thumbing your nose at someone else and going, "What are you gonna do about it?

- David Byrne

topic: Fun, Fighting, Cartoon

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

- David Carradine

topic: Years, Cartoon, Kung Fu

Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.

- David Low

source: David Low (1956). “Autobiography”, London : M. Joseph

topic: Two, Cartoon, Three

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

- David Remnick

topic: Lying, People, Cartoon

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

- David Remnick

topic: Writing, Cartoon

I'm like a Dilbert cartoon.

- David Spade

topic: Cartoon, Dilbert

John flung himself into a pseudo-karate stance, one hand poised behind him and one in front, posed like a cartoon cactus. I thought for an odd moment he had moved his limbs so fast they had made that whoosh sound through air but then I realized John was making that sound with his mouth.

- David Wong

topic: Air, Hands, Cartoon

Blows the lid off a decades-long conspiracy to secretly educate cartoon viewers

- David X. Cohen

topic: Blow, Long, Cartoon

Cartoons are windows into the human condition,

- Doug Marlette

topic: Cartoon, Window, Human Condition

I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.

- E. J. Hughes

topic: Black And White, Preparation, Cartoon

I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.

- Eddie Redmayne

source: "Come February, the world will be sick of my face". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2012.

topic: Girlfriend, Kings, Cartoon, Lion King, Ex Girlfriend

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

- Edward Ruscha

topic: Artist, Ideas, Cartoon

PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.

- Edward Tufte

topic: Style, Cartoon, Tools, Powerpoint

We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.

- Elayne Boosler

topic: Thinking, Drawing, Cartoon

It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside.

- Emma Forrest

source: Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Men, Cartoon, Swagger

I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.

- Ernest Cline

source: "Kobe Bryant Has A New Leadership Philosophy, And The Lakers Love It" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. October 13, 2014.

topic: Party, Cartoon, Tvs

The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as equals they made a point we are integrating you into the Danish tradition of satire because you are part of our society, not strangers. The cartoons are including, rather than excluding, Muslims.

- Flemming Rose

source: "Why I Published Those Cartoons". www.washingtonpost.com. February 19, 2006.

topic: Buddhism, Islam, Cartoon

It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.

- Frank Miller

topic: Cartoon, Modern, Holy

Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.

- Gary Larson

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

topic: Miracle, Cartoon, Week, Here We Go Again, Small Miracles

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

topic: Character, Ideas, Cartoon, Cartoon Character

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

- Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

topic: Cartoon, Hollywood, Film

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

topic: Character, Cartoon, Littles, Cartoon Character, Edginess

... the hardest studio music to play is Tom & Jerry - cartoons. The music makes absolutely no sense, as music. You can't get into hearing it. There's nothing to hear-'bleep!, blop! scratch!' and it comes fast; everything's first take. That'll change the way you look at life.

- Howard Roberts

topic: Music, Play, Cartoon

At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.

- Hugh Hefner

topic: School, Cartoon, Age

Political cartoons are the ass-end of the artform

- Ivan Brunetti

topic: Political, Cartoon, Ass, Political Cartoons

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

- Jack Abramoff

topic: People, Cartoon, Monsters

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

topic: Philosophical, Cartoon, Lobbying

One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the great things of life.

- Jackie Tabick

topic: Lying, Character, Cartoon, Snoopy, Cartoon Character

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.

- James Howard Kunstler

topic: Country, House, Cartoon, Country Houses, Suburbia

My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.

- Jello Biafra

topic: Reality, Parent, Cartoon

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

topic: Play, Musical, Cartoon

I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.

- Jerry Lewis

topic: Children, Thinking, Cartoon

Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.

- Jhonen Vasquez

topic: Creepy, Cartoon, Sitting

[Voicing a cartoon] feels like going down a mysterious but joyful black hole. Once you relax for 15 or 20 minutes, and really go, "I don't care if I look like an ass," it's really fun to see what happens. You know that nothing is being visually judged.

- Jim Parsons

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Fun, Black, Cartoon

Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.

- Joel Hodgson

topic: Thinking, Cartoon, Analogies

I think cartoons are important. Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don't understand why people don't like cartoons.

- John DiMaggio

topic: Thinking, People, Cartoon

I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.

- John Goodman

topic: Cartoon, Woodpeckers, Freak, Scooby Doo

Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

- John Kricfalusi

topic: Kids, Funny Things, Cartoon

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

- John Kricfalusi

topic: Running, Cartoon, Complaining, Always Complaining

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

- John Kricfalusi

topic: Cartoon, Wonder, Found

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

topic: Careers, People, Cartoon

Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.

- John Lasseter

topic: Oil, Cartoon, Veins, Motor Oil

I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.

- John Leguizamo

topic: Teacher, Cartoon, Movement

People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.

- John Oliver

topic: Character, People, Cartoon, Cartoon Character

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

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

topic: Running, Men, Cartoon

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

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

topic: Dream, Tired, Cartoon, Tom And Jerry

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

- Joseph Barbera

topic: Cartoon, Done, Magazines, Handful

The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.

- Julia Gillard

topic: Cartoon, Acres, Photograph

I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Fun, Political, Cartoon, Political Cartoons

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

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Artist, Ideas, Cartoon, Illustrators

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.

- Kathy Najimy

topic: Cartoon, President, Attention, Sad Day

People expect you to be this weird cartoon sometimes when you're a musician. I hate that. I hate standing out. I hate people looking at me. I just want to be part of the crowd.

- Katy B

topic: Hate, People, Cartoon, I Hate People

My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.

- Kurt Sutter

topic: Wife, Cartoon, Dramatic

I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character.

- Lennox Lewis

topic: Character, Boxing, Cartoon

I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.

- Lev Grossman

source: Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

topic: Dragons, Cartoon, Dungeons, Phantom Tollbooth, Chronicles

A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

- Lev Yilmaz

source: "A cleaner, faster animation" by Katie Dean, www.wired.com. October 19, 1999.

topic: People, Cartoon, Feels, Artistry

I've done the voice for the Hulk for the animated cartoon.

- Lou Ferrigno

topic: Voice, Cartoon, Done

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

- Lucy Liu

topic: Cartoon, Competing

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

- Lynda Barry

topic: Cartoon, Behind My Back, Would Be, Cartoonist

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

- Lynda Barry

topic: Sleep, Cartoon, Littles, Cartoonist, Unable To Sleep

The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.

- Manny Farber

source: Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.79, Library of America

topic: Interesting, Cartoon, Firsts, Disney Cartoon

I'm in a Roadrunner cartoon, Sinclair. And I'm the coyote.

- MaryJanice Davidson

topic: Cartoon, Coyotes

I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.

- Matt Groening

topic: Crazy, Thinking, Cartoon

I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well.

- Matt Smith

topic: Teenage, Turtles, Cartoon, Used To Love, Nina

Rugrats was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.

- Michael Angarano

topic: Growing Up, Kids, Cartoon

American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer to a blushing cartoon than a sensual celebration.

- Molly Haskell

source: Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.21, University of Chicago Press

topic: Sensual, Cartoon, Different, Bland

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

topic: Cartoon, Tables, Want, Syndicate

They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

- Muhammad Ali

topic: Holocaust, Cartoon, Germany

I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

- Nancy Lublin

source: "On Underdogs" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2009.

topic: Mean, Underdog, Cartoon, Goliath

When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

- Nate Silver

topic: Cartoon, Onions, Analysis, Memes, Outliers

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.

- Nick Mancuso

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: School, Catholic, Cartoon

I was always into cartoons and animation.

- Nonito Donaire

topic: Cartoon, Animation

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

- Pat Oliphant

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

topic: Artist, Cartoon

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

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

topic: Thinking, Cartoon, Dozen

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

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

topic: Book, Character, Cartoon, Cartoon Character

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

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

topic: Fun, Cartoon, Pants

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

topic: Issues, Cartoon, News, Cartoonist, Illustrating

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

- Paul Conrad

topic: Cartoon, Minutes, Editorials

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

- Paul Conrad

topic: Ideas, Cartoon, Readership, Editorials

Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.

- Paul Simon

topic: Death, Cartoon, Want

When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons.

- Pete Docter

topic: School, Cartoon, Middle School

I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.

- Peter Capaldi

topic: Writing, Cartoon, Bottles, Specs

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

- Questlove

topic: Parent, Cartoon, Strict

So far as I am concerned, I am not at all aware that there indeed exists a serious side as well to my cartoons drawn in an inspired mood of mischievous abandon.

- R. K. Laxman

topic: Cartoon, Sides, Serious

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon

- Rachael Leigh Cook

topic: Acting, Cartoon, Want

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

- Randy Quaid

topic: Voice, Cartoon, Want, Disney Cartoon

I didn't invent anything; it's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes.

- Robert Crumb

topic: Cartoon, Culture, Classic

There are no cartoons about happy marriages.

- Robert Mankoff

topic: Cartoon, Happy Marriage

I was the founder of the Cartoon Bank in the 90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.

- Robert Mankoff

topic: Cartoon, Way, Income

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

- Robert Mankoff

topic: Cartoon, Needs

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

- Robert Mankoff

topic: Short Life, Cartoon, Use, Chromosomes, Fruit Flies

I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.

- Roberto Benigni

topic: Ducks, Cartoon, Donald Duck

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

- Rube Goldberg

topic: Book, Cartoon, Paper

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

- Rube Goldberg

topic: Sports, Fighting, Cartoon

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

- Ruth Buzzi

topic: Fun, Voice, Cartoon

Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.

- Ryan North

topic: Dna, Cartoon, Way

I am an old school sort of syndicated cartoon watcher. I'm a big fan of Voltron, too.

- Seamus Dever

source: Source: collider.com

topic: School, Cartoon, Fans, Watchers

I grew up, probably like a lot of people, on cartoons. And I never thought I would have the chance to be in an animated movie. It's good also to show the world my sweet side with them.

- Sean William Scott

topic: Sweet, People, Cartoon, Animated Movies

Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.

- Sean William Scott

topic: Character, Cartoon, Comedy, Cartoon Character

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

- Seth MacFarlane

topic: Artist, Cartoon, Hell

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

- Shigeru Miyamoto

topic: Reading, Appreciate, Cartoon

I like physics, but I love cartoons.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Cartoon, Physics

Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.

- Steve Cropper

topic: Years, Cartoon

Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

- Steve Rushin

topic: Hockey, Style, Cartoon, Accordions, Inspirational Hockey

Theres a fine line between playing a dim-witted character and playing a cartoon.

- Steven Pasquale

topic: Character, Cartoon, Lines

The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons.

- Tatiana Maslany

topic: People, Cartoon, Way

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

- Ted Rall

topic: Cartoon, Information, News, Incomplete Information

I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

- Ted Turner

topic: Mean, Cnn, Cartoon, Cartoon Network

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

- Terry Gilliam

topic: Political, Cartoon, Bombs, Cartoonist, Political Cartoons

We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.

- Tina Weymouth

topic: Real, Light, Cartoon, Light Hearted

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

- Tom Berenger

topic: Hero, Thinking, Cartoon

I dont really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Looney Tunes and old classic cartoons.

- Ty Simpkins

topic: Adventure, Cartoon, World, Looney Tunes, Gumballs

apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down...

- Tyler Cowen

topic: Technology, Space, Cartoon, Pace Of Change

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

topic: Jobs, Animal, Cartoon, Anatomy, Unnatural

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

- Walt Disney

topic: Life, Character, Cartoon, Exaggerating, Cartoon Character

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

- Walt Disney

topic: Cartoon, Puppets, Littles, Crude

I love Saturday morning cartoons. What do you like to do on a Saturday morning?

- Wayne Brady

topic: Morning, Cartoon, Saturday Morning

When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you're playing a cartoon character.

- Willem Dafoe

topic: Character, Cartoon, Want, Cartoon Character

I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.

- William Hogarth

topic: Compassion, Cartoon, Four, Raphael

I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.

- William Jackson

topic: Children, Cartoon, Television

In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.

- Yuliya Snigir

source: "'A Good Day to Die Hard's' Yuliya Snigir on Russian Stereotypes and 'Making It' in Hollywood (Q&A)". Interview with Irina Danilova, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2013.

topic: Motivation, Cartoon, Film, American Film

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

topic: Cartoon, Fundamentals, Taught, Humming

Maybe we're just stupid and don't realize you can't make music that sounds like a chase scene from a 'Scooby Doo' cartoon and have people take you seriously.

- Andrew VanWyngarden

topic: Stupid, People, Cartoon

I don't really know what makes someone want to be a cartoonist, but part of it is trying to get in trouble. You're looking where the line is and seeing how much you can step over it, and I mean, I do that in my personal life, too. I try to anger and piss people off a little bit to try to see what I can get away with. I got in trouble with more than one cartoon.

- Barry Blitt

source: Source: wwd.com

topic: Mean, People, Cartoon

When I'm online and I see a picture I want to draw of anybody or anything, a unique angle of them or just something that looks very drawable, I slide it to my desktop and put it in a folder. It just seems like every picture of Trump is a revelation. Any angle. I didn't know a person could look like that. His facial expressions - he really is a cartoon. He's like an instruction manual of how to caricature someone.

- Barry Blitt

source: "Cartoonist Takes On the Sketchiest President Yet". Interview With Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, www.motherjones.com. April 2, 2017.

topic: Unique, Expression, Cartoon, Facial Expression, Desktop

I was very briefly under contract to Disney Animation, to develop ideas for animated features. They don't like you to use the word "cartoon" around there.

- Charles Busch

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Disney Animation, Ideas, Cartoon

Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you watch a lot of Cartoon Network and drink mid-price Chardonnay at 11 in the morning.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Morning, Cartoon, Watches, Cartoon Network, Chardonnay

I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked in comic books. So, I wasn't too proud to work in something like cartoons.

- Greg Weisman

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Book, Cartoon, Proud

I don't think it's so important to be a movie director. It's a beautiful profession, but no more than to be a cartoon writer. A very rich cartoon writer. I've done a lot of films, and I know deeply that, in all of cinema, there is no director who is as good as Shakespeare.

- Jesus Franco

topic: Beautiful, Thinking, Cartoon

I always wanted voice over to be part of my career. Even as a child, I'd watch cartoons and know that someone was doing the voices. When I moved to L.A., my hope was that I'd do on-camera work and voice over. I've ended up doing both, but the voice over side took off in a way that I didn't expect!!

- Kari Wahlgren

source: Source: www.nerdprobs.com

topic: Children, Cartoon, Moved

What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?

- Mr. Krabs

topic: Character, Yesterday, Cartoon

I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

- Petra Haden

topic: Cartoon, Tunes, Remember, Looney Tunes

I grew up, obviously, watching tons of animation; Saturday morning cartoons or anything that we could get our hands on. And then when 'The Simpsons' premiered, that just kind of changed the landscape of everything. We hadn't had prime time animations since 'The Flintstones.'

- Rachael MacFarlane

topic: Morning, Hands, Cartoon, Prime Time, Flintstones

It's really cool to get these guests on the show BoJack Horseman: not just actors, but, "Can I get Jonathan Lethem on my weird talking horse cartoon show to talk about how growing up in Brooklyn, he always dreamed of being a ringtone?"

- Raphael Bob-Waksberg

topic: Horse, Growing Up, Cartoon

I always loved cartoons but the process seemed so difficult. Then I told myself, "Nothing good comes easy." So, I took a plunge and started my first animation stint in 2003.

- St. Lucia

topic: Cartoon, Firsts, Easy

My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations.

- Tom Tomorrow

topic: People, Expectations, Cartoon

A cartoon character isn't a specific person. It isn't Tom Cruise or George Clooney playing the part, it's a character that could be you. It's easier for you to get drawn into it in a special way.

- Tomm Moore

topic: Character, Special, Cartoon, Cartoon Character

I never tried to make a cartoon for a certain age bracket. I just tried to make entertaining pictures. That's why they still play and why they play so well in foreign countries.

- Walter Lantz

topic: Country, Play, Cartoon, Foreign Countries, Brackets

The fascinating thing about the studio was that there was no story department. They would put a little notice up on the bulletin board saying: 'The next Oswald will take place at the North Pole. Anybody having any gags, please turn them in before such a date.' If you turned in gags regularly, the way Tex Avery, Cal Howard, Jack Carr and two or three others of us did, you'd be called into the gag meeting. The group would go into Walt's office and talk about whatever the subject of the cartoon was. Walt would put it into some kind of form and that was the story--no scripts, no storyboards.

- Walter Lantz

topic: Two, Office, Cartoon, Bulletin Board, North Pole

If you want to get into the business of doing voices for cartoons, you've got to be a good actor. It's all about acting. It's not about the voice. The voice is just one part of what you bring to the character.

- Bob Bergen

topic: Character, Voice, Cartoon

There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them without literature. For they would then relapse into a dreary and ultimately dangerous state of half-education, in which they would be easily satisfied by crude semi-pictorial approximations of the strip cartoon and by the abundant supply of degenerate literature which destroys, rather than promotes, a capacity to face the problems of the world with skill and courage

- A. D. Patel

topic: Skills, People, Cartoon, Relapse, Pictorial

Homer Simpson has been more inspirational to me than probably any cartoon character. What he represents, I think, there's a part of that in everybody. There certainly is in me, and I love that.

- Michael Welch

source: Source: www.thestarscoop.com

topic: Character, Thinking, Cartoon, Cartoon Character

I did all sorts of cartoons and stuff. And every once in a while I still do. It's rare, but it happens.

- Brady Corbet

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Cartoon, Stuff, Stills

I seem to thrive by destroying the last thing I did, in a kind of cartoon Nietzsche way. Emerson says in "Experience" something like "every ultimate fact soon becomes the next in a series." The self feels more real when you are destroying things you've made than when you are paying them homage. That's the good news about being self-destructive. The bad news, I feel I don't need to deliver.

- Dan Chiasson

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Real, Cartoon, Kind, Homage

I loved the movies and I loved cartoon superheroes - superheroes in general. I had all the pajama costumes and I would wear my underwear on the outside of the pajamas because that's what Superman does.

- Dane DeHaan

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Superhero, Cartoon, Doe

I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a punchline or a joke at the end. My drawings don't depend on that so much.

- Raymond Pettibon

source: Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

topic: Drawing, Cartoon, Want, Punchlines

I've always wanted to do an adult cartoon, because I want a job where you can just drive up in your pajamas, have a cup of tea and not even get dressed, and you've gone to work for the day. What a great gig!

- Rebecca Mader

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

topic: Jobs, Tea, Cartoon

A normal day in my life - well right now it's kinda just like hang out and be lazy .I'm just kinda like enjoying my break, basic, what everybody does. Hang out in my pajamas and eat cereal and watch cartoons.

- Drake Bell

source: Source: www.thestarscoop.com

topic: Cereal, Lazy, Cartoon

If you were to look at an old 'Betty Boop' cartoon or an 'Out of the Ink Well' animation, there are many things about 'Adventure Time' that really remind you of that, even though it doesn't look like any of those cartoons.

- Fred Seibert

topic: Adventure, Cartoon, Ink

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

- Roz Chast

topic: Cartoon, Form, Plasticity

I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

- Roz Chast

topic: Cartoon, Littles, Reason

A good cartoon, what it does, is sum up a situation, very neatly, as opposed to reading a lot of articles and so on.

- Terry Mosher

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Reading, Cartoon, Doe

If you look at a cartoon on a computer screen, it really jumps and can be quite effective.

- Terry Mosher

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Cartoon, Looks, Computer, Computer Screen

Many cartoons I've drawn have been controversial, perhaps a little before their time, certainly when I was getting started.

- Terry Mosher

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Cartoon, Littles, Controversial

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't

- Jeff Smith

topic: Character, Kids, Cartoon, Cartoon Character

I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and an animated cartoon.

- Stan Lee

topic: Book, Cartoon, Facts

Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that would certainly have been impossible before the discovery of LSD.

- Jeff Lindsay

source: Jeff Lindsay (2008). “Dexter in the Dark”, p.108, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

topic: Morning, Discovery, Cartoon, Cartoon Shows, Saturday Morning

A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.

- Al Yankovic

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Voice, Cartoon, Variation

Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the moment of crisis - that's cartoon stuff.

- Chris Cleave

source: "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test'--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

topic: Fire, Waiting, Cartoon

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that’s formalism.

- Alain Robbe-Grillet

source: Alain Robbe-Grillet, Richard Howard (1989). “For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction”, p.43, Northwestern University Press

topic: Zebras, Cartoon, Hippopotamus

It's all about being comfortable, being easy and having you be able to wear something and not having it wear you. It's classic. Every time I've tried to be bold and crazy, I feel like a Japanese animated cartoon character.

- Jennifer Aniston

source: "Jennifer Aniston on Moving on From 'Friends,' What it Would Take for Her to Return to TV". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 22, 2012.

topic: Crazy, Character, Cartoon, Cartoon Character

If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks.

- Steven Pinker

topic: Cartoon, Would Be, Accurate

I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' then Jessica Rabbit, and finally I moved onto a real-life human being and was into Punky Brewster, and then Christina Applegate on 'Married with Children.'

- Pete Wentz

source: Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. May 19, 2008.

topic: Children, Real, Cartoon, Married With Children, Christina

Nature only goes so far. Nurture, what you raised on and what you ingest as a youngster, it really affects you when you grow up in really subtle, long drawn-out ways. And to find that, to hear that thing again all those years later and to realize that was the source, it's like, "What else has me twisted?" So now I'm going back to robots and cartoons; I go back to all this to see what got me the way that I am.

- Lupe Fiasco

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Growing Up, Long, Cartoon

There is something very pleasurable about watching cartoons, a really warm, comfortable feeling. My taste is quite broad, but most of all I like American cartoons. Early Disney, Betty Boop, Roadrunner, Ren & Stimpy, South Park. Sometimes I'll watch Pokemon or bad 80s cartoons.

- Jim Jarmusch

source: Source: www.newrafael.com

topic: Feelings, Cartoon, Pokemon

They don't tend to feature the kind of vaginas I like in adult films. I tend to like a thick, heavy pussy - the kind of pussy that looks like it just smoked an exploding cartoon cigar.

- Jim Norton

topic: Funny, Humor, Cartoon

I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a mental construct that you want to express in a drawing is, to me, a cartoon.

- Jim Woodring

source: Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

topic: Drawing, Cartoon, Definitions

I think that cartoons have a lot more power than they're given credit for.

- Jim Woodring

source: Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

topic: Thinking, Cartoon, Credit

The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

- Gary Larson

source: Gary Larson (1989). “The PreHistory of the Far side: a 10th anniversary exhibit”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Ideas, Cartoon, Vices