Top 20 Chuck Jones Quotes

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

A lion’s work hours are only when he’s hungry; once he’s satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

There’s only one test of a great children’s book, or a great children’s film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children’s film, or a great children’s book.

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

Painting does what we cannot do – it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds – the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

If you want a midget to look like a baby, don’t put a cigar in his mouth.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.

The only thing an adult can give a child is time.

Mark Twain’s Roughing It is a book that many people don’t know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

I’m still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

Anyone can negatively criticize – it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.