Chuck Jones Quotes (48 Quotes)


    Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

    Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

    The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.

    It's not impossible that you could have a student athlete going virtually every day, week after week, and that's not a good situation. We try to prevent that.

    When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.


    They haven't been positioning themselves as a style company before. It's probably the right thing to do, unless they are moving away from a low price business model. And I highly doubt that.

    If my daughter had been in her right mind, she would never, ever have taken the kids with her that day. Danielle would never have done anything to hurt these children.

    Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich.

    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.

    Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.

    the most important and stunning discovery I made at art school was the ability to live by the single line... no shading, no multiple lines, no cross-hatching, no subterfuge. Just that line.

    The record is not only clear, it's public. ... (The trading plans) provide for pre-arranged sales of stock over a six-month period. These plans are typical for senior executives of public companies and the plans were approved by the company's board of directors.

    H-P was in the dog house and in the 'show-me mode,' and it's really starting to show. I felt that after speaking with management and seeing some results that we were early on in the turnaround cycle.

    Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

    I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.

    I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.

    It's a bargain. I'd gladly pay him another 808.6 million to have him create another 65 billion in market cap.

    Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

    There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

    CA isn't well positioned from a growth standpoint.

    A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

    Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

    It is a yellow light that either it's competition, therefore pricing, or that market growth is not as robust as it had been.

    I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

    The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

    The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

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

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

    I don't buy the currency argument. I was expecting more. That jumps right out.

    If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

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

    In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

    Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

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

    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.

    Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

    Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

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

    Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

    I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

    We're in a slower-growth environment and as Larry said, if you can get 10 percent growth from organic growth and 10 percent from acquisition, it adds cash and adds earnings. That's as long as they can make the integration work.

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

    The only thing an adult can give a child is time.

    The top line looks very good, ... were better than expected just because of the size of the company.

    All of a sudden long-term growth rate expectations have ratcheted down.

    Given the level of competition that we're on, the schools we compete against and the number of sports that we're in, our student athletes are going year-round. So, open summer participation just means that these student athletes are just that much busier. But that's OK as long as there's some control, some limitations on it. We try to monitor it a little bit.

    Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

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


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