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.

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

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.

You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.

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.’

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

In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented.