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

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation. I let the part of me that is Bugs come to the surface, knowing, with regret, that I can never match his marvelous confidence.

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

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 whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.