The Best The Grinch quotes

All of you have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone. — 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

You’ve got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started. — Chuck Jones

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

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

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. — Chuck Jones

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

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single–minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected. — Chuck Jones

I’m all toasty inside. — The Grinch

Holiday who–be what–ee? — The Grinch

And then–the true meaning of Christmas came through, and the Grinch found the strength of*ten Grinches, plus two! — How The Grinch Stole Christmas

Cheer up, dude. It’s Christmas. — The Grinch

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. — Chuck Jones

Tomorrow is Christmas. It’s practically here! — The Grinch

What’s Santa have that I don’t? — The Grinch

One man’s toxic waste is another man’s potpurri. — The Grinch

Of course, if I bump the loathing to 9, I could still be done in time to lay in bed, stare at the ceiling and slip slowly into madness. — The Grinch

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep. — Chuck Jones

Somebody’s fabulous! — The Grinch