Walt Disney People Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.

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.

No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.

People spend money when and where they feel good.

When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.

When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.

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.

To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.

The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.

The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.

Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.

Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.

My business is making people, especially children, happy.

I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions.

You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew." - Pocahontas

People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.

Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you

You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.

People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.