Conan O'Brien
Television Host, Comedian
"Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you watch a lot of Cartoon Network and drink mid-price Chardonnay at 11 in the morning."
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Walt Disney
Animator, Film Producer
"Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world."
Dennis Miller
Comedian
"They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for these they got rid of the Literacy Channel and the What's Left of Civilization Channel."
Walt Disney
Animator, Film Producer
"I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities."
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"I like physics, but I love cartoons."
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"I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things."
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"All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't"
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"I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character."
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"I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well."
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"I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons."
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"I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea."
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"There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue."
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"I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television."
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"I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings."
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"For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?"
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"At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them."
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"If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point."
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"I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards."
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"If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing."
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"People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character."
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"I just watched cartoons for three years, and that had a strong affect on me."
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"They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust."
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"Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard."
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"I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't."
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"Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look."
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