Quotes By Walt Disney

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

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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