Animated Quotes

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies.

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.

I knew early on after the first couple episodes were fully scored and animated that we had a real quality show here. But I always questioned whether or not it would work.

The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.

This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'

If there's a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I'm very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine.

Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

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

Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.

I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.

I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.

Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.

I would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux' , and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.