All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters – to make them personalities.
But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it’s sure to come true.
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.
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.