Walt Disney Quotes

Walt Disney was an American film producer and television presenter, known as a pioneer of animated films, and as the creator of Disneyland.

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

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

38. “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.”

37. “Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.”

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


35. “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.”

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

33. “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.”

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

31. “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.”


30. “There's nothing funnier than the human animal.”

29. “I believe in being an innovator.”

28. “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.”

27. “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.”

26. “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.”

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

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

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

22. “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.”

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


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

19. “Laughter is America's most important export.”

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

17. “A man should never neglect his family for business.”

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

15. “You can't just let nature run wild.”

14. “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.”

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

12. “If you can dream it, you can do it.

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


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

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

8. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

2. “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.”


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


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