Quotes By Walt Disney

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Disneyland is a show.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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