Kelly Asbury Quotes

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

I would love to voice an animated penguin or platypus at some point.

I love animated movies in general. I like making them.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animators the same way I'd sit with my actors and cast them.

It feels like animation has a little more independence than traditional sitcoms ever did.

I ran development and programming at Disney TV animation. We did a lot of cartoons.

I really enjoy watching animation films and I have always been curious about how such well-established actors in Hollywood lend their voices to animation films.

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.

My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.

I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.

I've always loved animation and animated films.

I like animation: you can go to work in your pyjamas.

I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

I had always loved cartoons, especially 'Bugs Bunny,' and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing and painting, storytelling, not to mention actors, music, and sound effects.

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.

My job was to give 'The Secret Life of Pets' production team lots of options when it came to Duke. So that's what I always tried to do.

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

It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.

I have a paper, pencil, and ink sketch for a Mickey Mouse cartoon short entitled 'Mickey's Garden' from 1935.

The question I get more than any other is, 'What does it mean to direct an animated film?' And the reality is that it's not a whole lot different from what you do in live action.