Fear too often spells failure.

I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.

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.

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

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.

Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. [. . . ] You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head's in a whirl. And then you feel light as a feather, and before you know it, you're walking on air. And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop, and you completely lose your head!

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