Walt Disney Quotes
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You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.
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The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project - in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World - will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT.
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Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.
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Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.
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I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
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I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle.
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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
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[Mickey Mouse] He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
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It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
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In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.
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We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on.
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A man should never neglect his family for business.
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To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.
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Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, yes there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.
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I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.
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Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.
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There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay.
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Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time. In this new dimension, whatever it is, nothing corrodes or gets run down at the heel or gets to look ridiculous like, say, the celluloid collar or the bustle.
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It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.
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I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.
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The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.
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Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.
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I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.