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Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw. -- Craig McCracken
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities. -- Walt Disney
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. -- Walt Disney
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
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
I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon -- Rachael Leigh Cook
Watching Fox, that's like watching the Cartoon Network. Fox is nuts. -- Jon Stewart
What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish? -- Salman Rushdie
(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child. -- James Thurber
I can do a really high-pitched cartoon voice. Everybody always say they like that. -- Corbin Bleu
I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up. -- Ted Turner
I was involved in a web cartoon of Kung Fu with WB a few years back. -- David Carradine
Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies. -- Joel Hodgson
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. -- Karl Lagerfeld
If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point. -- Paul Conrad
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked. -- Matt Groening
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You know what's sad about this? Not the gambling, but the best way to reach college athletes is the Cartoon Network. -- Jay Leno
Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour. -- David Low
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
The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor. -- Joseph Barbera
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
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
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
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
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all. -- Joseph Barbera
One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt's belt. -- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana. -- Don Mattingly
Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing. -- Matt Groening
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
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
I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read. -- Richard M. Nixon
'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing. -- Matt Groening
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
You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do. -- Joan Severance
Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn't appear until 2000. -- Robert Mankoff
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
Cartoon Hangover has given us another place we felt we could find the most talented people around the world and give them a chance to make the films they want to make and match it up with their audience. -- Fred Seibert
My most heartfelt thank you goes to Impact Future Media and Cartoon Monkey Studio. Their dedication to the truth is very uncommon in the world we live in today. I am now, and will always be, grateful to their organizations. -- John McAfee
My most heartfelt thank you goes to Impact Future Media and Cartoon Monkey Studio. Their dedication to the truth is very uncommon in the world we live in today. I am now, and will always be, grateful to their organizations." -- John McAfee
It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there. -- William Jackson
What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear. -- Walt Disney
Only Fools and Horses' was just one of those shows that could keep on going and going, that excited me. 'Hartbeat with Tony Hart' and 'Rolf's Cartoon Club' were my huge favourites, though. I used to love drawing and always sent work in to the show. -- Russell Tovey
Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. -- Nomar Garciaparra
I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it. -- Roz Chast
I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally. -- Bil Keane
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
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
My biggest regret is that I've assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character. I don't regret what has happened to me, but I regret the way I have dealt with it. -- Megan Fox
Cinderella' the cartoon scared me. I watched the bits with the mice, and the scenes with the stepsisters ripping her dress apart scared me. Cinderella was never even my favorite character in 'Into the Woods.' -- Anna Kendrick
I love thinking of cartoon characters feeling really real feelings. And I love to do that, not just as a fan, but as a creator, so if people want to look for those levels, they're actually there. -- Rebecca Sugar
Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals to watch, animal stories to read. -- Diane Ackerman
The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to doodle a rectangle (the table) populated by figures (the participants) sitting around the table with their comments as cartoon word balloons. -- Tom Wujec
It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapons, catapult and peashooter, will no longer pick on Walter the Softy, and his ferocious grimace is to be replaced by a charming, boyish smile. -- Simon Hoggart
Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes. -- Chubby Checker
The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike. -- Gary Larson
Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
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 on Saturday morning in the '80s. -- Lev Grossman
My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great. -- Tom Ford
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
You know, I'm a big comic book fan. As a kid I used to collect them until there was a horrible mudslide in Hollywood and I lost my collection, but I was also at an early age the voice of 'Jonny Quest;' it was a cartoon; so I am kind of a latent fan boy. -- Tim Matheson
What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again? -- Mitt Romney
If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye. -- Louis C. K.
Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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
I'm like a Dilbert cartoon. -- David Spade
Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong. -- Robert Mankoff
The only cartoon I ever liked was 'Fantasia.' -- Margaret Weis
Rugrats was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid. -- Michael Angarano
I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore. -- Billy Corgan
I'm in a Roadrunner cartoon, Sinclair. And I'm the coyote. -- MaryJanice Davidson
The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world. -- Robert Crumb
I've done the voice for the Hulk for the animated cartoon. -- Lou Ferrigno
I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak. -- John Goodman
I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons'. That was actually a good cartoon to me. -- Jim Rash
Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard. -- Paul Simon
Blows the lid off a decades-long conspiracy to secretly educate cartoon viewers -- David X. Cohen
Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look. -- Dolly Parton
I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings. -- Paul Laffoley
Theres a fine line between playing a dim-witted character and playing a cartoon. -- Steven Pasquale
In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations. -- Yuliya Snigir
People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character. -- John Oliver
If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks. -- Steven Pinker
Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point. -- Randy Quaid
Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe. -- Garry Trudeau
A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice. -- Al Yankovic
All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster. -- Jack Abramoff
The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it. -- Robert Mankoff
My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse. -- Kurt Sutter
Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country. -- James Howard Kunstler
On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy. -- Gary Larson
The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't. -- Julia Gillard
When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information. -- Ted Rall
The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant. -- Manny Farber
People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit. -- Jessica Hahn
I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy. -- Roberto Benigni
Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads. -- John Kricfalusi
Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person. -- David Horsey
My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front. -- Evan Sayet
I am an old school sort of syndicated cartoon watcher. I'm a big fan of Voltron, too. -- Seamus Dever
Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once. -- Steve Cropper
All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't -- Jeff Smith
I really enjoyed doing the voice of Nose Marie on the cartoon series Pound Puppies. Fun, FUN cast. -- Ruth Buzzi
As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites. -- Kadir Nelson
If you look at a cartoon on a computer screen, it really jumps and can be quite effective. -- Terry Mosher
Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time. -- David Remnick
Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy. -- Seann William Scott
Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines. -- Jon Ronson
Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy. -- Seann William Scott
The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke. -- Ann-Margret
The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other.. I was a cartoon character. A joke. -- Ann-Margret
I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon. -- John Leguizamo
What it's done for me is highlight the fact that we need to lean into the cartoon universe of social media. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go. -- Seth MacFarlane
The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too. -- Neil Gaiman
A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame. -- Lev Yilmaz
I don't see why it's such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film. -- Bill Plympton
Doing the voice for something [cartoon] requires an enormous amount of energy and you really have to use your whole body. It's cool. -- Megalyn Echikunwoke
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
I grew up with Thundercats and She-Ra: Princess Of Power. That was sort of my take on fantasy: the women after-school cartoon world. -- Milla Jovovich

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