Top 300 Walt Disney Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.”

— Walt Disney

252. “Fantasy, if it’s really convincing, can’t become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.”

— Walt Disney

253. “Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.”

— Walt Disney

254. “I don’t pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.”

— Walt Disney

255. “The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.”

— Walt Disney

256. “Without inspiration, we would perish.”

— Walt Disney

257. “The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.”

— Walt Disney

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

— Walt Disney

259. “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.”

— Walt Disney

260. “Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.”

— Walt Disney

261. “The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.”

— Walt Disney

262. “I’m not the perfectionist anymore. It’s my staff. They’re the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.”

— Walt Disney

263. “We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.”

— Walt Disney

264. “Being a celebrity doesn’t even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs – and if being a celebrity won’t give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can’t be much in being a celebrity after all.”

— Walt Disney

265. “What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.”

— Walt Disney

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

— Walt Disney

267. “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.”

— Walt Disney

268. “Anything that has the Disney name to it is something we feel responsible for.”

— Walt Disney

269. “Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.”

— Walt Disney

270. “All individuals are different and some of us just wouldn’t be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.”

— Walt Disney

271. “We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.”

— Walt Disney

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

— Walt Disney

273. “I’ve always been bored with just making money. I’ve wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant to me was that I was able to get money to do that for me.”

— Walt Disney

274. “Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.”

— Walt Disney

275. “If I can’t find a theme, I can’t make a film anyone else will feel. I can’t laugh at intellectual humor. I’m just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart...”

— Walt Disney

276. “When you go to bat as many times as I do, you’re bound to get a good average. That’s why I keep my projects diversified.”

— Walt Disney

277. “Mickey’s a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.”

— Walt Disney

278. “Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.”

— Walt Disney

279. “Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.”

— Walt Disney

280. “I just make what I like – warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it’s that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.”

— Walt Disney

281. “Speaking for the one field which I feel definitely qualified to comment on, I fully believe the animated picture will emerge as one of the greatest mediums, not only of entertainment but also of education.”

— Walt Disney

282. “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 sometimes, is still reaching for the stars.”

— Walt Disney

283. “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.”

— Walt Disney

284. “Or heritage and 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.”

— Walt Disney

285. “Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.”

— Walt Disney

286. “All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.”

— Walt Disney

287. “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.”

— Walt Disney

288. “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.”

— Walt Disney

289. “Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.”

— Walt Disney

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

— Walt Disney

291. “I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.”

— Walt Disney

292. “Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?”

— Walt Disney

293. “People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.”

— Walt Disney

294. “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.”

— Walt Disney

295. “Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.”

— Walt Disney

296. “Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.”

— Walt Disney

297. “Disneyland is a work of love.”

— Walt Disney

298. “I never intended to make art.”

— Walt Disney

299. “If I depended on critics and children to make a living I’d grow broke.”

— Walt Disney

300. “Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.”

— Walt Disney