Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

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.

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

There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.

On my own or with a friend, I'm a shopaholic, and I particularly love the cleaning aisle in the supermarket. But when I'm with my husband, I'm shop shy because he can't bear it. It always ends up with us making a huge scene on the High Street and then going off in a huff in separate directions.

When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.