Chuck Jones Quotes

I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I most admire in the world in my field have never shown that much ego to me.

We can admire what we see, but we can only love what we truly know.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

My approach is a very human one, as a fan.

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

What do I like in a girl? I like a girl that likes me, a girl that knows how to smile and see the bright side of things. A girl that makes me a better person.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not understanding that they were interesting, and I have been trying to make it up to them for being so indescribably blase, so genuinely uninterested and dismissive.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don't understand is that I've looked up to her for so many years.

You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.

When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

I think it's all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given.

I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like that.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

But I still feel like a normal person... I've walked the streets and I know what it feels like. I speak with humility, and apparently those songs connect with people.

I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.

Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.