Joseph Barbera Quotes

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

I don't get cast for every job and I understand that.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

It's hard when you put a year of good work into something and someone at the top says no, and they pull your show's title off a bulletin board and chuck it in the trash.

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.

I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now.

I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

I was told I was going undrafted. That's what I was told by everybody. I guess I wasn't good enough in everybody else's eyes.

I dreamed of turning pro as an Olympic medallist but I ended up turning pro as the kid who failed to make the Olympics.

I'm a perfectly equipped failure.

That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

I think I'm what they call a never-was.

Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail.

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble

I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.

How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.