Walt Disney Quotations

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

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.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Mickey Mouse 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.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

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.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends.

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely.

lost among the other battles being fought on a crowded cultural battlefield.

leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy.

so graphic or explicit as to be patently offensive.

Of all the things I have done, the most vital is coordinating the talents of those who work for us and pointing them towards a certain goal.

Girls bored me, they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.

Heigh ho, heigh ho! / It's off to work we go.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

There is great comfort and inspiration in the feeling of close human relationships and its bearing on our mutual fortunes - a powerful force, to overcome the "tough breaks" which are certain to come to most of us from time to time

You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.

You know, you're just not supposed to be hitting a flip wedge into that hole,

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The workers in mainland China and inside the Disney park, their salaries are very low and the work days are very long,

The small amount of these activities shown in our films essentially depict villains or characterize these activities as unwholesome.

Teenagers have to discover the product. (Then) they tell their friends and it grows through a grass roots marketing effort

A whole new era in Disney animated entertainment begins.

That place is my baby and I would prostitute myself for it

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

always talking to Disney about how to build a great product for the consumer. We are very excited about the potential for working with them in developing an even deeper relationship.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them

I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I have no use for people who throw there weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.

Laughter is America's most important export.

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.

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.

When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified.

Biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem. Getting the money to open Disneyland. About seventeen million it took. And we had everything mortgaged including my personal insurance.

Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.

I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.

I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.

To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.

Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great.

To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it.

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

If it can be dreamed, it can be done.

Tomorrow can be a wonderful age.

I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.

All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.

To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to carry on the best human impulses which should bind us together for a better world.

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.

A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have had regard for money. It depends on who's saying that. Some people worship money as something you've got to have piled up in a big pile somewhere. I've only thought about money in one way, and that is to do something with it. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. I don't even want the dividends from the stock in the studio, because the government's going to take it away. I'd rather have that in (the company) working...

Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.

I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.

If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.

Don't tell me about the problems - I make the problems.