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Jack Nicholson Actor, Filmmaker
Cartoon

"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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Drake Bell Actor
Cartoon

"A normal day in my life - well right now it's kinda just like hang out and be lazy .I'm just kinda like enjoying my break, basic, what everybody does. Hang out in my pajamas and eat cereal and watch cartoons."

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Billy West Voice Actor
Cartoon

"I did speak out about celebrities because I thought it was appalling. I thought that if the cartoon became popular, it was only going to last as long as the career of the people who are in it. They didn't make up timeless voices. They used their own. They brought nothing to the table, in other words. There was no alchemy. That's why a cartoon was so alluring, was that a human being went into a place and created this supernatural sound, or whatever sound it was supposed to be that was totally unlike their own, and did it in multiples."

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Billy West Voice Actor
Cartoon

"It's very hard to take a character out of nothing, and put a hook on it, especially because it's only sonic. Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone's attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it."

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Slavoj Žižek Philosopher, Cultural Critic
Cartoon

"The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons."

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Stan Lee Comic Book Writer, Editor
Cartoon

"I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and an animated cartoon."

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Karen Allen Actress
Cartoon

"CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't feel any real risk. You're watching a bunch of computer-generated graphics."

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Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Designer, Photographer
Cartoon

"I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment."

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Margaret Thatcher Politician
Cartoon

"In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'"

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Frank Miller Comic Book Artist
Cartoon

"It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
Cartoon

"If you watch a stretch of TV for a few hours, there is a good chance you'll hear me on some commercial or in some documentary or on a cartoon as some voice of a character."

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