Walt Disney Quotes
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.
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All we ever intended for him or expected of him was that he should continue to make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him. We didn't burden him with any social symbolism, we made him no mouthpiece for frustrations or harsh satire. Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.
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I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.
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To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
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Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP
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If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there's some way to do it.
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God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
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In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.
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Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?
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I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
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Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
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Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.
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Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.
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Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
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I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
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Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.