“Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.”
“When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.”
“Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.”
“The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.”
“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.”
“Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.”
“The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.”
“Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.”
“I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.”
“I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.”
“Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.”
“Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP”
“Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.”
“It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.”
“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.”
“Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.”
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
“Frying pans! Who knew, right?”
“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.”
“The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.”
“When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.”
“Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.”
“Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.”
“Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.”
“Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things.”