Walt Disney Quotes

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

“Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when the business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at their lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.”

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

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

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

“I never called my work an "art." It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.”

“Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”

“Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.”

“Animation offers a medium of storytelling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.”

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

“All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then.”

“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.”

“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.”

“Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards (the things we live by and teach our children) are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.”

“Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”

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

“Disneyland is the star; everything else is in the supporting role.”

“We believed in our idea: a family park where parents and children could have fun together.”

“We did 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.”

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

“You can't just let nature run wild.”