Paige O'Hara Quotes

I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very young age, but also by the Warner Bros. cartoons, 'Tom and Jerry,' and of course Disney. And also by Fellini's 'Giulietta of the Spirits' and Kurosawa's 'Ran.' And by other American illustrators and painters.

I fancy cartoons; don't even get me started on 'Aladdin.'

My children love Maleficent's voice, so they always make me do it at home.

To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.

I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.

I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

Games are another place to find work, not only the voice stuff but in the motion capture stuff. It's exciting work.

I saw 'Sleeping Beauty' when I was, like, 6 years old at the Mercury Theatre. Then, when I came to Disney, I was in the company of these wonderful artists. People like Glen Keane, like Mark Henn, who were brilliant animators who could really bring these things to life.

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

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.

It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood's most successful and innovative genre.

I'm in the entertainment business, and I make commercially entertaining animated features.

In my opinion, animation will continue to thrive as long as there are children, parents, television, movies and the need to laugh.

If you look at the Disney Villains, I think you'll find that they do have mass appeal in some way, and it usually has to do with a voice quality that also matches very well with the animation.

Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises.

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

I've always said that what cartoonists do is create friends for readers.

A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming.

There was a guy that I got to know pretty well - Joe Grant. He was one of the creators of Dumbo and worked side-by-side with Disney. Being a total Disney nerd, I was obsessed with asking him questions. He was 92 when I got to know him.

Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.

One day, I was taken into a room with 25 animators, all working on Sadness. They asked me a lot of questions, and they got something of the way I move into the character.

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

When we did 'Toy Story,' that was an all-hands-on-deck situation that really was time-intensive.

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

When we were kids, I know when I saw 'Pinocchio' it had a huge impact. I was ten years old, and I went home, and I was drawing the characters.