Walt Disney Quotes
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We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.
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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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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
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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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I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.
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I believe in being an innovator.
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Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.
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I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.
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When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.
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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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Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.
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Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.
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As the original 'Mary Poppins' budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire Studio. And this made me nervous. I knew the picture would have to gross 10 million dollars for us to break even. But still there was no negative head-shaking. No prophets of doom. Even Roy was happy. He didn't even ask me to show the unfinished picture to a banker. The horrible thought struck me - suppose the staff had finally conceded that I knew what I was doing.
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Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.
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I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.
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In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.
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Here in Florida … we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland - the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.
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Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
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It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
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There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out. Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into other fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests.
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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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Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.
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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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If I haven't thought about six impossible things before breakfast, I consider the day wasted.