David Hornsby Quotes

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.

Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes.

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

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons.

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply business and I considered working for him. What dawned on me was: 'If I'm an actor, I get to do the fun parts of every job!' Without having to go to four years of law school.

If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

I'd love to go back to Broadway; I'd love to do animation; I'd love to do hair and make-up campaigns because I love hair and makeup - and, I'd love to do film. I mean, there are a lot of doors I'd love to open up!

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do.

I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board.

In my career, I've never been a box office name. Granted, a couple of my movies have made a lot of money, but I'd do other movies which make very little money, or they're not seen that much.

It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.

I love to draw and paint. I did all the illustrations in my books, so I always have my watercolours with me. I was creative as a child and studied art at Central Saint Martins before getting into food.

I really enjoy drawing, and I enjoy design, fashion design especially. If acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'd probably go into design.

I always wanted to do animation.

I didn't need tempting back to the theatre. It's always been something I'd wanted to do again and again and again, but with every job, you can only take what's in front of you or what's offered.