There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

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 thought I had everything until I found you.

I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.

The world makes up my pictures, not me.

Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.

I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.

You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.

As a rule people don't think other people on drugs are funny. They think they are tragic. They have a point, but I still had the funny.