Walt Disney Quotes

As the original 'Mary Poppins' budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire Studio. And this made me nervous. I knew the picture would have to gross 10 million dollars for us to break even. But still there was no negative head-shaking. No prophets of doom. Even Roy was happy. He didn't even ask me to show the unfinished picture to a banker. The horrible thought struck me - suppose the staff had finally conceded that I knew what I was doing.

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.

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

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

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

Everything that matters to we can work out as expected, in the event that we have the strength to seek after them.

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

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.

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

The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.

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.

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.

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

Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

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.

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

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

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

Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.

Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP

nothing is impossible

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

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

Worry is a waste of imagination.

We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company.

Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.

Well I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. They will cut of your ear if they don't like your face, it's babaric, but hey, it's home.

Do anything better than it was ever done before and youll get rich.

Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.

Frying pans! Who knew, right?

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

Have confidence in your ability to do it right, and work hard to do the best possible job.

To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.

My imagination creates my reality.

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

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.

Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.

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.

The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

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

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life - drama, pathos and humor.

Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.

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.