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

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.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

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

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

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.