Walt Disney Quotes

Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.

Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.

When you're working on a project, make sure at least one person knows what they are doing.

I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

If it can be dreamed, it can be done.

It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion.

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

I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.

It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing...and adding to.

If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.

Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.

The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.

Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.

I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.

While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.

Look, you're really cute, but I can't understand what you're saying

I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant to me was that I was able to get money to do that for me.

The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow.

It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.

All individuals are different. Some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.

I happen to be kind of an inquisitive guy and when I see things I don't like, I start thinking, why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?

The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.

Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.

Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.

I believe in being an innovator.

Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.

The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.

Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.

We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on.

My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.

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

Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.

I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.

My imagination creates my reality.

All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.

First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream.And finally, dream.

You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.

The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.

In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.

I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.

If we didn't have deadlines, we'd stagnate.