Quotes By Walt Disney

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.

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

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

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

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

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

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Disneyland is a show.

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.

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

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

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.

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

You can't just let nature run wild.

Laughter is America's most important export.

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.

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

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.