Quotes from Chuck Jones


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

    Pay | Somebody | Offer


    Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

    Resides | Trait


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

    Situation | Bugs | Longer


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

    Anatomy | Bugs | Limited


    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.

    Light | Sunshine | Selling


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

    Baby | Cigar | Mouth


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

    Change | Art | Innovation


    Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

    Business | Comedy | Stringent


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

    Animals | Early | Quite


    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.

    Work | Good | Thinking


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

    Art | Laughter | Comedy


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

    Age | Mark | Anybody


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

    Painting | Cannot | Brings


    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.

    Good | Great | Writer


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

    Reading | Three


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

    War | Great | Coming


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

    Time | Wife | Husband


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

    Work | Together | Lion


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

    Animals | Older | Humans


    Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

    Creativity | Anxiety


       

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