American Quotes

I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

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

Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

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.

Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.

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

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.

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.

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

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.

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.

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.

Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.

He's sitting in the catbird seat.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

I want to be a writer someday.

My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.

I love being a student, if I could, I'd stay in school forever.

In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.