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The road is better than the inn.
An animator is an actor with a pencil.
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace
Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.
Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
Artists don't need criticism, artists need love
Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life
Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
The only thing an adult can give a child is time.
I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.
Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
You have a coyote inside you and you have to get it out
The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.
I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.
The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.
You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.
If you want a midget to look like a baby, don’t put a cigar in his mouth.
If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth.
Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.
You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'
A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.
I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.
Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.
Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.
The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.
Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.
A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.
The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.