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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.
Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun.
I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment.
You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.
The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.
Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.
I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.
Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.
The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.
I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it.
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.
I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.
I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.
Everything that matters to we can work out as expected, in the event that we have the strength to seek after them.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others
I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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.
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.
I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.
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.
Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.
I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
All individuals are different. Some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.
Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.
The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it.
Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.