Animated Quotes

A conversation with you is a different thing than projecting to a couple hundred people. It's bigger and more animated and it's on a bigger scope, but still in the heart, it's honestly me.

I am pretty interested in trying to write and produce an animated film at some point, but that's a job that takes several years, minimum, to get an animated movie going.

Warner Bros. is really open-minded, as far as studios go, when it comes to the types of movies they'll entertain, even with animated movies. It's a great place to be.

My dream is to star in an animated movie and to have a toy made after me.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great.

On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day.

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

People are very harsh critics of animated humans.

You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

I would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well.

I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game emotionally.

I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing.

I have some calls out to Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Eddie Murphy. I said, 'I won't star in any blockbuster films if you stay out of animated films.' They just won't call me back.

I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.

[Doogal] wasn't even animated. It was still and the audience had to move.

The first animation thing I did was the first Transformers, the one that was animated many years ago. And I had heard that Orson Welles was doing a voice on it.

I think speaking Italian affects your whole body movement. It's so musical and animated and passionate.

Donald Trump understood America. He animated America, and now he'll be the president of all Americans.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I'm animated.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

I've done the voice for the Hulk for the animated cartoon.

I haven’t had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don’t notice.

'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.

I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.

When I talk to people and I get animated, I touch them and am very physically involved. It's actually been really hard, but it's an acting challenge.

I've always loved animation and animated films.

I think I might do an animated film next. I'm serious.

[Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

There was a point a few years ago where I realized I started out playing boys on camera and stage, and then I translated that to playing boys in animated shows. I was like, "Whoa, this is intense."

I've worked in animation for a long time. I started in Spain and I wanted to make feature films. That desire to figure out how to make animated features brought me to the U.S. to work for Disney.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

From day one, my idea was always to use the gallery as this animated place to discover culture in a much bigger way.

That's what's great about animation: It's collegial, and it's all about collaboration. Any good animated film is good for animation.

If you've never woken up from a car accident to discover that your wife is dead and you're an animated, rotting corpse, then you probably wouldn't understand.

My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

I grew up, probably like a lot of people, on cartoons. And I never thought I would have the chance to be in an animated movie. It's good also to show the world my sweet side with them.

I animated everything traditionally, on paper. I love how the texture of paper looks (it also matches textures of papier-mâché) and I love the tactile process.

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.

I'm not honestly a real student of animation. I never was into it all that much. I don't really watch any animated shows.

I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.

I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

No man, and least of all myself, could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him.