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

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.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

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

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

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

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

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

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

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

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

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 hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

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.

Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.

You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.

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.

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

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

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.

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

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

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

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

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

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

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

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing but you cant take the process too personally.

I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie.

I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.