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.

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

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

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.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

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

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

You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

Don’t be defined by someone else’s definition of you.

Fear is a constant, and faith is a choice. Fear comes from karma, from faith arises dharma.

Good food and good eating are about risk.

Don't give up. Reach down inside of you and you'll find something left.

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.

If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way.

you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.