Walt Disney Quotes
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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 think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.
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Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
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I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
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Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
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Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!
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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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I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.
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Happiness is a state of mind.
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We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company.
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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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You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.
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Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
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They say I'm a conservative, but I consider myself I true liberal.
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I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
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I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.
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The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.
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There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how.
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Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.
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Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.
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If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.
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We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.