Walt Disney Quotes
320 Walt Disney Quotes
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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we are curious – and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.
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There is nothing funnier than the human animal.
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
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Disneyland is the star; everything else is in the supporting role.
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You’re dead if you only aim for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
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All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me…
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I’m not Walt Disney anymore.
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[On Fantasia] Music you can see and pictures you can hear.
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[To his father in 1923] I’ll make the name Disney famous around the world.
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I used to get mad and blow my top – a Donald-Duck-type thing.
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I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real unless we first know the real.
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Too many people grow up. That’s the trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don’t remember what it’s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. I won’t do that. I’ll temper a story, yes. But I won’t play down, and I won’t patronize.
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Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
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Our 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.
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We don’t really know ourselves what we really like and what we want.
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Audiences don’t know what they want.
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The unreal, the imaginative and yet let it have a foundation of fact.
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Don’t ask me anything about art. I don’t know anything about it.
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What is art for the goose is not art for the gander.
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[At Marcelline farm he] Picked up his nature lore and his great love for wildlife.
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I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.
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[On being told by a construction worker on the Disneyland attraction called ‘The pirates of the Caribbean’ that ‘Something’s missing, but I can’t figure out what it is.’] Ride it again and keep riding until you’ve figured it out.
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Well after 40 some odd years in the business, my greatest reward, I think, is I’ve been able to build this wonderful organization… also to have the public appreciate and accept what I’ve done all these years – that is a great reward.
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[To a husband and wife film team he sent to Alaska to film seals for a whole year there that became Seal Island] More seals.
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[On his Disneyland theme park it] Will remind us and show us how to make these wonders part of our own lives.
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[Several months after the release of Donald in Mathmagic Land] We learned a great deal during the war years when we were making instruction and technological films in which abstract and obscure things had to be made plain and quickly and exactly applicable to the men in the military services. These explorations and efficiencies of our cartoon medium must [be used] and extended in the entertainment field.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.
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Childness? I think it’s the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, there’s a certain something that you retain. It’s the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can’t laugh at others.
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I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place – a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don’t like, I’m not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.
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Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.
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Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideas of freedom and a better life.
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All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven’t. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.
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[On opening Disneyland on the 17th of July 1955] To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.
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We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company.
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
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Well, my greatest reward, I think, is that I’ve been able to build this wonderful organization. I’ve been able to enjoy good health, and the way I feel today, I feel like I can still go on being part of this thing after forty some odd years of business, and also, to have the public appreciate and accept what I’ve done all these years. That, that is a great reward… Well of course, happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy. It’s just according to the way you look at things. You know. So I think happiness is contentment but it doesn’t mean you have to have wealth. But all individuals are different. Some of us just wouldn’t be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy. Yet I envied those people. I had a brother who I really envied because he was a mailman. But he’s the one that had all the fun. He had himself a trailer, and he used to go out and go fishing, and he didn’t worry about payrolls and stories and picture grosses or anything. And he was the happy one. I always said, ‘He’s the smart Disney.’
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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.
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