The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.

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

When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn is how to take your shoe off, and then how to take your sock off, then prop your leg up carefully on your other knee, take a piece of paper, and draw your foot.’

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

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

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.

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