The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.
People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.
Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.
It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
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.
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.
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.
I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.
Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.
I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.
I'm doing this because I want to do it better.
Any dream is possible, if you have courage.
You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!
Frying pans! Who knew, right?
Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP
My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.
Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.
When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing...and adding to.
Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.
I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.
The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.
Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.
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.
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.
All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.
To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.
Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America...
People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.
The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.
Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends.
I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.
Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.
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.
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward.
Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.
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.
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.
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.
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 there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting.
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how.
I know different ways of looking at things. I have my stockholders, and I feel a very keen responsibility to the shareholders, but I feel that the main responsibility I have to them is to have the stock appreciate. And you only have it appreciate by reinvesting as much as you can back in the business. And that's what we've done... and that has been my philosophy on running the business.
I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it.
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
