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 …

- Chuck Jones

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

- Chuck Jones

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

- Chuck Jones

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

- Chuck Jones

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

- Chuck Jones

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

- Chuck Jones

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

- Chuck Jones

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

- Chuck Jones

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

- Chuck Jones