Walt Disney

Quotes

• “I always felt that Uncle Remus should be played by a living person, as should also the young boy to whom Harris' old Neg...”
• “No story in English literature has intrigued me more than Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It fascinated me the firs...”
• “EPCOT will be an experimental prototype community of tomorrow that will take its cue from the new ideas and new technolo...”
• “When I look at the early days when Walt was really in command of the studio, the pictures did not look like each other a...”
• “I have seen children brought to me in terrible panics, and interestingly enough most often the Walt Disney movies which ...”
• “Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of makin...”
• “The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to l...”
• “During the last few years, we've ventured into a lot of different fields. We've had the opportunity to meet and work wit...”
• “To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and h...”
• “November 1966 statement to Ollie Johnston, regarding Mowgli's love interest Shanti) during work on The Jungle Book prior...”
• “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, ...”
• “Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethos … where you have the values...”
• “Most family historians agree that Elias's authoritarian and sometimes cruel nature - and propensity for whipping and eve...”
• “Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breat...”
• “Walt was a strange kind of guy, but he's still by all odds the most important person that animation has ever known. Anyb...”
• “Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimensi...”
• “Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in ...”
• “Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or intere...”
• “Quoted in A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers...”
• “Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk ...”
• “Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide aw...”
• “1936 during the casting for 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, referring to eleven-year-old actress Deanna Durbin,...”
• “That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be t...”
• “A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effo...”
• “We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world th...”
• “Deeds rather than words express my concept of the part religion should play in everyday life. I have watched constantly ...”
• “Walt considered himself religious yet he never went to church. The heavy dose of religiosity in his childhood discourage...”
• “Our most important aim is to develop definite personalities in our cartoon characters. We don't want them to be just sha...”
• “Disney, for all his pining for a perfect world (embodied in his depiction of a turn-of-the-century Main Street), did not...”
• “Stating that the development of the Mickey Mouse character was inspired by Charlie Chaplin's character "the Tramp", as q...”
• “I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably ...”
• “Lauretta Bender, 1954 Senate Subcommittee Hearings into Juvenile Delinquency, "Testimony of Dr. Lauretta Bender, senior ...”
• “I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to childre...”
• “To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportuni...”
• “Disney World has acquired by now something of the air of a national shrine. American parents who don't take their childr...”
• “I remember once that Walt said something to the effect that, "I'll make the picture; and when I make the picture then yo...”
• “Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, yes there's a certain something t...”
• “He was a very religious man, but he didn't believe you had to go to church to be religious. … He respected every religio...”
• “All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it whe...”
• “As quoted in The Stuff Americans Are Made Of : The Seven Cultural Forces that Define Americans - A New Framework for Qua...”
• “I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience tog...”
• “Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new ...”
• “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main.....”
• “Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together wit...”
• “Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagi...”
• “I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concer...”
• “On EPCOT, quoted in Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando (2001) by Richard E. Foglesong, p. 67, and The A...”
• “We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. … All we are trying to do ...”
• “Here in Florida … we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland - the blessing of size. There's enough land h...”
• “Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit mean...”