When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, "But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty." I told her that was just the point - mine wouldn't be.
You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!
There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.
Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.
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.
Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.
Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.
I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.
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.
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.
The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.
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.
Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.
I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.
The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.
It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.
It's silly to build a wall around your interests.
The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves.
Your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it.
Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.
The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.
The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.
We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.
It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.
Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.
I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions.
Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.
I never intended to make art.
I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them.
Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.
If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.
Worry is a waste of imagination.
I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.
The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.
Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.
If I haven't thought about six impossible things before breakfast, I consider the day wasted.
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to feel they're just part of a big complex. I don't think you can create too well in a big plant. That's why I always tried to avoid bigness in the studio.
I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.
I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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.
Just make sure you never do less than your best
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.
Any dream is possible, if you have courage.
I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
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.
It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
