Quotes By Walt Disney

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

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.

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

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.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

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.

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

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.

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

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

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

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

I believe in being an innovator.

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.

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

You can't just let nature run wild.

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.

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

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

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 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.