Best Animated Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I think I naturally emote a lot. And, just growing up, I'm a theatre kid, I grew up in performing arts, and so I organically and naturally am very theatrical and animated in a lot of things that I do.”

“To me, the bar for television music is forever set by Shirley Walker's score for 'Batman: The Animated Series.'”

“I felt proud that I lent my voice for a legendary character in an animated movie.”

“If there are kids in the crowd, I try to be more animated for them. It does change a little bit each show. There's a lot of improv.”

“From the beginning, religious faith animated the American quest to explore the heavens.”

“All I had growing up was like 'Aladdin,' maybe I could be animated - or terrorist roles.”

“I tended toward animated material that wasn't just for kids. I could tell as a kid watching those shows that I loved the jokes that I got but I also loved the jokes I didn't get because I felt that I was hanging out with a smarter, cooler audience.”

“I'm pretty - I'm pretty animated.”

“As a mother, I've seen a lot of animated movies, and, I've got to say, there's so much crap out there for children.”

“I really like Braun Strowman. I would turn the volume down on him just a little bit. I think he is a little bit overly animated, and he doesn't have to be. He is already a larger than life character when he wakes up and has a cup of coffee.”

“My family is a little ridiculous. They're wild - really colorful and animated and big personalities.”

“Animation films are about entertainment and about fun for the whole family, and if you went too far down a dark path, it's not what people, I think, expect from a great animated film.”

“I always laugh when I listen to my old stuff. I was just trying way too much back then. Doing too many harmonies and too many runs and all the crazy stuff. Rapping all funny and animated.”

“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.”

“I pretty much choose anything I do in life based on whether or not I can work in my PJs. Certainly one of the perks of doing an animated film is that you don't have to go and get ready and wear wardrobe, and you just show up in whatever you're wearing.”

“I think 'Wreck-It Ralph' can stand proudly in the pantheon of the great Disney animated films. It's a fairy tale disguised as something more contemporary. With its balance of heart and comedy, it is still very much rooted in the Disney legacy.”

“I was a huge fan of the Bruce Timm animated series and, of course, the live action 'Lois & Clark' series. I watched that when I was in college.”

“It's embarrassing to tell you how much my friends make fun of me. Seriously, when you have a doll made of your face, it's ridiculous how creative your friends can get... pictures, videos, little animated cartoons that they've made.”

“When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie.”

“I'd like to continue being involved with issues that animated my time as attorney general - criminal-justice reform and civil rights especially. I don't just want to give speeches; I'd like to involve myself in this work in a systematic way.”

“Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.”

“I was very flattered when Disney Junior reached out and invited me to come voice Ariel for this special primetime edition of 'Sofia the First.' As the parent myself, I really appreciate the positive messages that this animated series is trying to put out there.”

“In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.”

“Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.”

“'Coraline' is Neil Gaiman's book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film.”

“No one's ever going to make a PG-13 animated film unless David Fincher executive produces it and puts it out on Netflix, and then if it's a success everyone will change.”

“I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.”

“When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.”

“People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.”

“Although I've watched most of Spielberg's films, I haven't watched many animated films. I prefer reality over animation.”

“I'd like to think that 'Bojack,' in some ways, pushes the edges of what some people think an adult animated show can be. That was an intention of mine while making the show.”

“There probably won't be an animated The Roots or Black Thought as there was, say, an animated Michael Jackson when 'The Jackson 5' cartoon show was on when we were kids.”

“Kohli is always fired up, very animated on the field and plays with passion.”

“I want to have the number one animated show in the world.”

“A lot of animated movies in the past have sort of relied on these archaic tropes on what the female characters in those movies can be and who they are.”

“In 'The Smurfs,' I was actually a live action character. So, I was a real person in that movie. But I was working with animated characters, which is very strange because they're off recording their work, and we're kind of reacting to nothing when we're doing the film.”

“If I'm really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it's animated, I don't care - it has to have that distance from real life.”

“Maybe everyone lives forever. Or maybe, like in the animated movie 'Coco,' only those whose stories get told by the living definitely do. It takes a story worth telling.”

“I actually grew up watching a lot of these cartoons - a lot of the animated series. 'Batman: The Animated Series,' 'Justice League,' all the stuff that would come onto Cartoon Network.”

“'South Park' movie was R. There's a place that people are not occupying, thinking that animated has to be family always, and I don't think that's true.”

“Every animated film that I've worked on - whether it was as a story artist or as Head of Story or even as director - where we originally started out with our story and where we eventually ended up were often very different places.”

“I am an animated and flamboyant person. But it is being mistaken as brashness. So now I am trying to be more dignified.”

“I want to see someone like Bobby 'The Brain' jumping around in his weasel suit with the rhinestones. Guys who are animated like that make the best translation to TV and to videogames.”

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

“Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.”

“I grew up in a time when the only musicals were animated musicals because nobody wanted to see people to break into song.”

“There's a lot of 'Game of Thrones' stuff used in a lot of pastiches. I don't know if I've seen a Lego 'Game of Thrones' yet, but there must be one. And there's an animated thing that's been going on for quite some time, and Littlefinger is a newsreader in it, and it's great.”

“Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that are out there.”

“Just because 'Planes' is an animated movie doesn't mean I don't take my work seriously. You can always push yourself to be better.”

“I think God must have had something in mind for me that was not on my radar when I first started out in New York. Back then, doing animated voices meant your career was done - it was looked down upon.”

“I make a lot of expressions constantly. I'm animated.”

“Voice acting is very interesting, I've done several animated projects, and you have to make the voice reflect the character and try and do as much with a word as you can with a look in a live-action film.”

“I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'”

“I'd love to be animated. I've always wanted to jump off of a bridge and not be hurt, like Bugs Bunny.”

“People are very harsh critics of animated humans.”

“American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it's full of energy and full of commitment. And as a British actor, we have to kind of learn that.”

“I haven't had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don't notice.”

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

“I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.”

“I grew up, probably like a lot of people, on cartoons. And I never thought I would have the chance to be in an animated movie. It's good also to show the world my sweet side with them.”

“I do enjoy animated movies.”

“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.”

“For this game, we shot it just like it as if it was a film so there wasn't that much different from doing a film other than some technical things for the costume that had to be done so they could transfer the footage later and make it look animated.”

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

“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.”

“When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.”

“I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.”

“What's great about turning an animated movie into Imax format is that the digital record of the shots still exist. So when you are printing on the large-format frame, you actually don't lose any quality, as you would do in a live-action movie.”

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

“'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.”

“I don't want this to come off bad at all, but I really don't watch Disney shows. I don't. I like the animated ones, but I just don't have time to watch a lot of TV.”

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

“With a standard editorial cartoon, you're taking tons of information and synthesizing it down to a single bite - a single moment in time. With animated editorial cartoons, it's more storytelling.”

“It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career.”

“My dream is to star in an animated movie and to have a toy made after me.”

“As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure how I could get hired to do what Mel Blanc and Daws Butler did. Create all of these great voices for animated characters.”

“One of the things that set us apart early on, as opposed to other animated shows, was the fact that 'Bojack' was continuous and serialized.”

“You have to understand that when you're a voice actor on an animated film, you're really just a tiny little piece of this huge process. And when you finally get to see the finished product and see all of the wonderful work that the animators & the designers & the writers did to make your character stand out, it's just so touching, so humbling.”

“The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief. So does a fairy story or an animated cartoon. This means that no matter how soberly the financial experts dress, no matter how dry their language, the economy they worship can only ever be as plausible as an episode of 'SpongeBob SquarePants.'”

“Unlike Facebook or Instagram, Twitter's core experience isn't about photos. It's a world of text, with occasional embedded photos, animated gifs, and short video clips.”

“When we first started, everything was animated, everything was comedy, and there was really nothing that was longer than about two minutes, because that's all audiences would watch.”

“I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.”

“Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.”

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

“I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.”

“That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.”

“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.”

“Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.”

“I don't have a lot of stage antics. I don't try to get attention through my animated body movements.”

“'Zone One' has one kind of an apocalypse, and 'The Underground Railroad' another. In both cases, the narrators are animated by a hope in a better place of refuge - in the last surviving human outpost, Up North. Does it exist? They can only believe.”

“As an actor, I always wondered what it would be like to watch an animated character with your voice behind it and see if it seems seamless or if it seems like your voice is isolated from the animation.”

“I made tons of films. I did animation for my friends' films. I animated scenes just for the fun of it. Most of my stuff was bad, but I had fun, and I tried everything I knew to get better.”

“If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.”

“Disney's animation division is the modern equivalent of the old studio system - which I believe is a better way to make all movies, not just animated movies.”

“Sometimes I get a little confused because with dancing I can express my emotions with my body. With acting you have to do it with your face and your expressions, and then with animated shows you have to use your voice and use your inflections. So it's definitely a challenge to transfer from each genre of entertainment.”

“Historically, there's been a degree of sameness to animated films.”

“When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held.”

“'More & More' is animated, full of confidence, even cute; in contrast, the dancing is incredibly powerful and energetic.”

“My father was a restaurant man, laundry man in his lifetime. And I've often wondered how and why did I become an actor? Where did I get the so-called talent to express myself? And I look back, and I see that my mother was very animated. I can remember that she used to, what she called 'bei zhu.'”

“It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.”