Walt Disney Quotes
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I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
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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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Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.
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Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.
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The most exciting and, by far, the most important part of our Florida project, in fact, the heart of everything well be doing in Disney World, will be our experimental prototype city of tomorrow. We call it EPCOT.
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Your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it.
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Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
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We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.
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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
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Deeds rather than words express my concept of the part religion should play in everyday life. I have watched constantly that in our movie work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether it deals with fable or with stories of living action.
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I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.
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Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.
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We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened.
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Our most important aim is to develop definite personalities in our cartoon characters. We don't want them to be just shadows, for merely as moving figures they provoke no emotional response from the public. We invest them with life a caricature of life.
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Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.
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I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.
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My imagination creates my reality.
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I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.
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Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.
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What are you doing with a car here in 1860?
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I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place...
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All individuals are different. Some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.
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The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him.
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The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.