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

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High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

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Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

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Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.

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I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.

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Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.

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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.

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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.

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