Walt Disney Quotes

“You reach a point where you don't work for money.”

“We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.”

“Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.”

“Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.”

“Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.”

“I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.”

“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.”

“We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on.”

“Worry is a waste of imagination.”

“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.”

“Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.”

“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.”

“Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work - then try to trump it.”

“I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.”

“I happen to be kind of an inquisitive guy and when I see things I don't like, I start thinking, why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?”

“My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.”

“I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.”

“The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.”

“It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion.”

“Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.”

“I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions.”

“Your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it.”

“I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if any of you start resting on your laurels, I mean just forget it, because...we are just getting started.”

“If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.”

“IT'S OUR AMERICA - DO SOMETHING TO PRESERVE ITS' BEAUTY STRENGTH, AND NATURALWEALTH”