Walt Disney Quotes
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To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.
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Everything that matters to we can work out as expected, in the event that we have the strength to seek after them.
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Just remember, it all started with a mouse.
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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 don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
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I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.
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I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place...
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I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.
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It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.
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Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.
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Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland.
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If I haven't thought about six impossible things before breakfast, I consider the day wasted.
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To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity. Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.
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Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.
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Even miracles take a little time.
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I believe that laughter is our greatest export.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
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Adults are only kids grown up.
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We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin - a little fellow trying to do the best he could.
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Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.
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Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.
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Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.
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In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
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Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.