Top 402 Quotes & Sayings by Walt Disney - Page 6

In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters.

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.

Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.

Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.

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

Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.

Tomorrow can be a wonderful age.

There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.

When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.

We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them.

The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.

In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.

It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn

We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to feel they're just part of a big complex. I don't think you can create too well in a big plant. That's why I always tried to avoid bigness in the studio.

If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.

I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.

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

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.

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

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

I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.

Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.

I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.

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

We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Here it is in larger scale. EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.

The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel every expression, every reaction. He get far enough from his story to take a second look at it... to see whether there is any dead phase... to see whether the personalities are going to be interesting and appealing to the audience. He should also try to see that the things that his characters are doing are of an interesting nature.

Disneyland is a work of love.

Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America...

The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.

No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.

I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it.

its fun to do the unexpected.

Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.

I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.

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

To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to carry on the best human impulses which should bind us together for a better world.

I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.

In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.

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

Don't tell me about the problems - I make the problems.

Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.

When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified.

Just remember, it all started with a mouse.

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

I never intended to make art.

I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.

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.

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 fun is working on a project and solving the problems.