The most important thing is family.
A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.
Adults are only kids grown up.
You’ll be a poorer person all your life if you don’t know some of the great stories and great poems.
She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn’t come along, she went over to the palace and got him.
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.
We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.
When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.
You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
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.
I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with ‘expressing’ myself with obscure creative impressions.
Suddenly he stops. He looks up. For, lo, there she stands. The girl of his dreams. Who she is or whence she came, he knows not, nor does he care for his heart tells him that here, here is the maid predestined to be his bride.
Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.
I don’t believe in talking down to children. I don’t believe in talking down to any certain segment.
Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.