Quotes By Walt Disney

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

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

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

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

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

Disneyland is a show.

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 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.

You can't just let nature run wild.

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

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

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

Laughter is America's most important export.

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.

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

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

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

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.

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