Top 402 Quotes & Sayings by Walt Disney - Page 7

Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.

I believe in being a modivator.

You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out. Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into other fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.

IT'S OUR AMERICA - DO SOMETHING TO PRESERVE ITS' BEAUTY STRENGTH, AND NATURAL WEALTH

If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.

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

I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.

I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, yes there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.

Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.

I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.

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.

Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.

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.

I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.

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

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

You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!

We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.

Frying pans! Who knew, right?

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

I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.

It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.

Biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem. Getting the money to open Disneyland. About seventeen million it took. And we had everything mortgaged including my personal insurance.

It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.

If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke.

I believe that laughter is our greatest export

My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.

I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.

There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay.

What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.

I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.

It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy.

A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.

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.

The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him.