Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Sedaris

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

Nick Park

My dream was to draw for 'The Beano.' When I was 10 years old, I started drawing cartoon strips with 'The Beano' in mind. I lived in that world. You own a comic, it's yours and adults don't understand it. You could pile them up under the bed, and if you were off school ill, you'd go through them all.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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

Flemming Rose

We would run these cartoons the same day as they would publish them.

William Steig

When I was an adolescent, Tahiti was a paradise. I made up my mind to settle there someday. I was going to be a seaman like Melville, but the Great Depression put me to work as a cartoonist to support the family.

Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how it evolves over time more quickly than we can with a form like the novel.

Bill Clinton

Let us never demonize or give up on those who disagree with us. We don't want to become like the right-wing talk-show hosts, hammering our adversaries into cartoon characters and denying their humanity.

Brady Corbet

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

Twyla Tharp

Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests.

Dennis Prager

There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims.

Art Spiegelman

In 1908, you could easily earn $20 to $200 as a cartoonist. What's amazing is that it's still true!

Beverly Cleary

Over the years, I have been approached about making Ramona into a cartoon or movie, but I was afraid that no one could really capture the spunky character of Ramona.

I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.

Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.

Fred Seibert

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.

As an editorial cartoonist now, I live for those moments of inspiration, and it is exhilarating to be inspired by a topic, have an opinion on the topic, come up with a good cartoon on the topic, and to draw it and get it in the paper the next day. That is what I live for.

When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union.

For an encore, I might do health-care cartoons using my own blood. That will be my last act.

Natasha Leggero

There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances.

Margaret Weis

The only cartoon I ever liked was 'Fantasia.'

Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

Emily Meade

I was traumatized by the cartoon version of 'The Hobbit.' It's not supposed to be scary, I don't think, but literally I think that's the most scared I've ever been.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.

Tom Wujec

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.

Will Ferrell

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.

Russell Tovey

'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.

My kids are grown and gone, but I remember just how violent even cartoons were. In fact, we even pulled the television out of the house for awhile. I saw the effect.

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

Muslim countries where notions of free expression are not as familiar -- what they see in the whole thing is the offensive cartoon to their prophet.

Chris Riddell

No politician would ever comment on a cartoon unless it was to show what a great sense of humour they have, that they can laugh at themselves.

Flemming Rose

No cartoon is worth a human life. But what is happening has more to do with the situation in the Middle East than 12 cartoons in a Danish newspaper.

Jim Rash

I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons'. That was actually a good cartoon to me.

Linda Cardellini

I love cartoons and childlike things, and this was my favorite. You can't escape it. It has always been on television, at least for my life. If someone would have told me when I was a kid I would be playing Velma in a Hollywood movie, I'd have said they were crazy.