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

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

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

Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience’s opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

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