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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I think the people from Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate." Martin Luther King, Jr. after the violent reception he received in Chicago in 1966.

But how a game plan came to be, what a finished plan looked like, I had no idea. I’d heard that all copies were shredded as soon as the game was over.

We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.

You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away.

Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.

I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.

To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice.

Ironically, I think action can be the dullest part of movies nowadays - and I love action movies!

On Twitter, I just want to make you laugh at all costs.

Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.