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  • Cartoons are windows into the human condition, -- Doug Marlette
  • Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read. -- Chris Ware
  • Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events. -- Matthew Ashford
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  • 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
  • Cartoons are the best stuff on TV. 'Wonder Showzen,' 'Aqua Teen,' 'SpongeBob,' and, of course, 'South Park' - one of the funniest shows ever made. -- Akiva Schaffer
  • 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
  • My mama didn't see it comin, my daddy was there. What's my excuse? Cartoons were the root. Started with Yosemite Sam With the gun in the palm of the hand, What couldn't I demand? -- Pusha T
  • Cartoons for girls don't have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness. Girls like stories with real conflict; girls are smart enough to understand complex plots; girls aren't as easily frightened as everyone seems to think. -- Lauren Faust
  • I am quite convinced now... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to my producing Spot. Cartoons must be very simple and have as few words as possible, and so, too, must the 'Spot' books. -- Eric Hill
  • Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always recognized. But creating a monumental work of architecture, or writing a great symphony, is something else. It's a higher order of creation. -- Jim Woodring
  • Heigh ho, heigh ho! / It's off to work we go -- Walt Disney
  • I don't think of cartoons or comics as being for kids. -- Jeff Kinney
  • I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason. -- Roz Chast
  • In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards. -- Warren Spector
  • With Saturday morning cartoons, you've got to start at 6 A.M., right? -- Jim Rash
  • My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination. -- Jello Biafra
  • You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway -- Walt Disney
  • I don't like cartoons that take place in Nowhereville. I like cartoons where I know where they're happening. -- Roz Chast
  • It's not really a guilty pleasure, but I love old cartoons. I could watch Bugs Bunny and Tweety all day long. -- Robbie Amell
  • I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons. -- Mike Dirnt
  • We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way. -- Susan Rice
  • I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons. -- John Lasseter
  • Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons. -- Ralph Bakshi
  • Oswald is an interesting character. Disney lost the rights to him in 1928 to Universal, who was distributing the cartoons and basically handed him over to Walter Lantz. -- Warren Spector
  • 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
  • I'm a big kid. I love drinking chocolate milk. I'm not afraid to watch some cartoons once in a while when I'm with my nieces and actually be attentive. -- Billy Horschel
  • Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young 'un, and also my cartoons were not like typical 'New Yorker' cartoons. -- Roz Chast
  • I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head. -- Patricia Heaton
  • So many of us, we love these things that come from Japan. We play the video games every day, we read the manga, people watch the cartoons, they absolutely love it. -- Yaya Han
  • 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
  • That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly. -- Berkeley Breathed
  • 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
  • My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, 'Hurray, cartoons!' and she would say, 'Smurfs! That's what you're watching.' -- Jayma Mays
  • I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately. -- Paul Feig
  • A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
  • My mother tried really hard to protect us, but occasionally, after afternoon cartoons of whatever was on... the nightly news would come on, and I'd see footage from the war zone, and I would hear the word 'Vietnam,' and I would know my dad was over there, and it was a very frightening experience for me. -- Suzanne Collins
  • When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons - it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn't wait. I loved it so much. -- Will Ferrell
  • Sour Patch, Swedish Fish. I love candy, man. I can't go without candy. And when I'm recording, I always have a TV on with cartoons - on mute, though. When I'm recording, I like to look at the TV now and then and see some crazy, wacky stuff. When you're thinking creative, it just keeps you creative. Everybody got their way of making music. -- Tyga
  • We are all God's animated cartoons. -- Tom Hanks
  • There are no cartoons about happy marriages. -- Robert Mankoff
  • I was always into cartoons and animation. -- Nonito Donaire
  • I like physics, but I love cartoons. -- Stephen Hawking
  • Political cartoons are the ass-end of the artform -- Ivan Brunetti
  • The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons. -- Tatiana Maslany
  • I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football. -- Alan Shearer
  • I watch cartoons the way most adults watch reality-TV shows. -- Ne-Yo
  • My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons. -- Questlove
  • I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons. -- Pat Oliphant
  • When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons. -- Pete Docter
  • The digital realm give cartoons and cartoonists more possibilities for exposure. -- Robert Mankoff
  • I liked the girly cartoons. I was very much a girly-girl. -- Kirsten Dunst
  • I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons. -- Bruce McCall
  • When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights. -- Rube Goldberg
  • We apologize for the fact that the cartoons undeniably have offended many Muslims. -- Carsten Juste
  • Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons. -- Ryan North
  • And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers. -- Rube Goldberg
  • I think that cartoons have a lot more power than they're given credit for. -- Jim Woodring
  • True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection. -- Barton Gellman
  • I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head. -- Petra Haden
  • I love Saturday morning cartoons. What do you like to do on a Saturday morning? -- Wayne Brady
  • I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head. -- Angie Harmon
  • I just watched cartoons for three years, and that had a strong affect on me. -- Johnny Depp
  • You might be a redneck if you watch cartoons long after your kids get bored. -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • I never read comics as a kid. I guess I was lazy and watched cartoons instead. -- Kirsten Dunst
  • I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons. -- J. Michael Straczynski
  • A lot of people get emotional in movies that are cartoons, but not in TV shows. -- Aaron Paul
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  • I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons. -- Nick Mancuso
  • They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust. -- Muhammad Ali
  • I watch a lot of cartoons. I watch a lot of "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Phineas and Ferb." -- Colin Kaepernick
  • All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons. -- Roy Lichtenstein
  • I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them. -- Jonathan Shapiro
  • I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions. -- Walt Disney
  • I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me. -- William Jackson
  • I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories. -- David Horsey
  • 100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.100 -- David Remnick
  • Many cartoons I've drawn have been controversial, perhaps a little before their time, certainly when I was getting started. -- Terry Mosher
  • I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me. -- Lucy Liu
  • I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats. -- Sherman Alexie
  • After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines. -- Joseph Barbera
  • 98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying. -- David Remnick
  • I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it. -- Joseph Barbera
  • In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration. -- Bil Keane
  • I love cartoons. So when they came to me to make Ice Age and this sequel, I was so happy. -- John Leguizamo
  • The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not. -- Roz Chast
  • As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad. -- John Kricfalusi
  • My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel. -- Gene Perret
  • He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really. -- Simon Callow
  • My cartoons haven't been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I'm more interested in campaigning about the issues. -- Judy Horacek
  • I like the old-school Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons. I'm talking Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian! -- Colin Kaepernick
  • 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
  • We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there. -- John Hench
  • Most sitcoms and cartoons, especially, you can rely on, because they go back to square one at the beginning of every episode. -- Scott Adsit
  • There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies. -- Josh Trank
  • 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
  • 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
  • I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting. -- John Kricfalusi
  • The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons. -- David Sedaris
  • I am going to name a group of my kids after my favorite cartoons, I am going to name them after Transformers. -- Dane Cook
  • 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
  • I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the time. -- Rebecca Sugar
  • I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons. -- Billy Collins
  • I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons. -- Billy Collins
  • 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
  • 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
  • [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
  • For me, off the field, cartoons are something that can ease my mind and get me back into having fun and just relaxing. -- Colin Kaepernick
  • I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons -- Mike Dirnt
  • 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
  • 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
  • I've loved cartoons all along. Most people outgrow that when they hit 10 or 12, I guess, but I never did. I'm not sure why. -- Warren Spector
  • I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression. -- Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a lot slimmer. -- Adrian Pasdar
  • 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
  • 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
  • I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons. -- Warren Spector
  • I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger. -- Kari Wahlgren
  • 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
  • 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
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