Top 100 Disney Walt Quotes
#1. You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.
William McDonough
#2. Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem.
Walt Disney
#3. What did that Walt Disney song say? Someday my prince will come? Well, mine came alright ... and I don't think Disney would make a song out of it
D.H. Starr
#4. Don't tell me about the problems - I make the problems.
Walt Disney
#5. 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.
Walt Disney
#6. I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka ... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
Kanye West
#7. It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward.
Walt Disney
#8. Look at the films of Walt Disney: 'Snow White' came out in February 1938, and I can't think of another film from that year that's watched as much. The same is true of 'Bambi,' 'Dumbo' ... even, frankly, 'Toy Story,' which is probably watched more than any other movie of 1995.
John Lasseter
#9. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.
Walt Disney
#12. When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.
Walt Disney
#13. Levay stated that the followers of Satan should consider Walt Disney as one of their guides.
Gary Margrove
#14. Across the river, a row of crystal castles glittered in the sunlight in a way that would make Walt Disney want to throw rocks at his Magic Kingdom.
Shannon Messenger
#17. People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.
Walt Disney
#18. Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.
Walt Disney
#20. I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.
Walt Disney
#21. I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral.
Walt Disney
#22. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.
Walt Disney
#23. I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World.
Anne Hull
#24. Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.
Walt Disney
#25. It had been fun to ride the fairy tale of Baz Acker actually giving a shit about him, but he knew firsthand fairy tales were a lot more Grimm brothers and much less Walt Disney.
Heidi Cullinan
#26. Fantasyland was designed as a home for some of the classic characters [from those films], and as a symbol of the magic, hope and beauty of the human imagination.
Leslie Le Mon
#27. No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.
Walt Disney
#28. The main quality of leadership ... is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it!
Walt Disney
#29. When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.
John Lasseter
#30. Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
Walt Disney
#31. Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating the talents of those who work for us and pointing them toward a certain goal.
Walt Disney Company
#32. Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP
Walt Disney Company
#33. All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.
Walt Disney
#34. When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.
Walt Disney
#35. Why would I want to be President of the United States? I'm the King of Disneyland.
Walt Disney Company
#36. There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details.
Walt Disney
#38. What do you mean 'speaking of fairy tales'? Since when do fairy tales include gigolos?" Annie asked.
"Well, since most fairy-tale princes are either gay or weirdly attached to their mommies, I think Walt Disney should seriously consider their inclusion," Sophie answered.
Elle Aycart
#39. Given the fact that he'd had only the barest of plans upon arriving in Arendelle, the end result was something of a miracle. True, he'd had to lie, manipulate, and con his way to this point, but that was just part of the game. And it turned out he played the game very, very well.
Walt Disney Company
#40. Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child's ideal introduction to movie magic. Yet Walt Disney taught moral lessons in the most useful way: by scaring the poop out of the little ones.
Richard Corliss
#41. Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.
Steve Erickson
#42. To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.
Walt Disney
#43. You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway
Walt Disney Company
#44. Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.
Walt Disney
#45. Our 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
#46. Though it isn't obvious from the bowdlerized versions in Walt Disney , the tales are filled with murder,infanticide,cannibalism, mutilation, and sexual abuse - grimm fairy tales indeed.
Steven Pinker
#47. For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this 'Celebration' village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first.
John Hench
#48. I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was 'I don't belong here.' Then I said, 'I'm here; let's get on with it.'
Jason Kilar
#49. I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.
Walt Disney
#50. 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 Company
#51. The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit.
Walt Disney
#52. All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me ... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney Company
#53. Just make sure you never do less than your best
Walt Disney
#54. In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.
And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman's family.
Chris Bohjalian
#55. Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Walt Disney Company
#56. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.
Walt Disney
#57. I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.
Walt Disney
#59. Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
Walt Disney Company
#60. Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.
Walt Disney
#61. Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.
Walt Disney
#62. Walt Disney has been described as an innovator, which means he took things that already existed and re-combined them to create something new.
Jim Korkis
#63. You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.
Walt Disney Company
#64. Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium cartoon animation towards new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.
Walt Disney
#65. Inspiration for what we produce comes from reading, observing the world of humans around us and also the animal kingdom
Walt Disney Company
#66. I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.
Walt Disney
#67. Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck.
Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney ever created.
Ridley Pearson
#68. We restore order through the imagination. We restore hope over and over and over again ...
Walt Disney Company
#69. I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
Walt Disney
#70. I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.
John Lasseter
#71. 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
#72. Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
Walt Disney
#74. If I haven't thought about six impossible things before breakfast, I consider the day wasted.
Walt Disney
#75. The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.
Walt Disney
#77. Walt Disney: An American Original, "a man gave birth to a mouse. The mouse built the man an empire.
Jeffrey Barnes
#78. We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction.
Janet Macunovich
#79. While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.
Walt Disney
#81. A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.
Walt Disney Company
#82. I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.
Walt Disney
#83. The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.
Walt Disney
#84. The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.
Walt Disney
#86. I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.
Walt Disney
#87. There is more treasure n books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main ... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
Walt Disney Company
#89. spoke into the mirror with a hardened, demanding voice. "Where's my cell phone?" he barked.
Walt Disney Company
#90. All right, all right! Party supplies are now off-limits, he said, snatching the party string and confetti from them. Dipper and Mabel couldn't help being in a good mood. They were looking forward
Walt Disney Company
#91. Do what you do so well that those who see you do what you do are going to come back to see you do it again and tell others that they should see you do what you do.
Walt Disney
#92. Walt also had a humorous sign posted outside the mansion, recruiting ghosts who wanted to enjoy 'active retirement' in the "country club atmosphere' of this 'fashionable address'. Interested ghosts were to write to the 'Ghost Relations Dept. Disneyland,' and were told,'Do not apply in person.
Leslie Le Mon
#93. We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.
Walt Disney
#94. Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney Company
#95. Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.
Walt Disney
#96. The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.
Walt Disney
#97. I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you don't see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see 'Bambi' alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.
Matthew Gray Gubler
#98. 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
#99. I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.
Walt Disney
#100. Girls bored me - they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known
Walt Disney Company
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