False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

Every word I write I suspect the next day.

How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?

How terrible a thing time is.

I abhor mere prettiness.

I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.

I hate myself and my face in particular.

It is impossible to tell you what is consisted in the act of love.

Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.

Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.

Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.

What an extraordinary world it is.

This diamond has so many carats its almost a turnip.

False friendship like the ivy decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Rugby is a wonderful show: dance, opera and, suddenly, the blood of a killing.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires.

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.

I love doing the voice of Batman because of the quality of the animation. The music is particularly incredible. Another bonus is getting the opportunity to work with some very respected actors who do not usually do voice work.

We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that.

Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.