I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

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.

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.