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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.

Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it only better.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Get a good idea, and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done, and done right.

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.

Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals the dreams and the hard facts that have created America.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Its kind of fun to do the impossible.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths

The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Any dream is possible, if you have courage.

The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

Fantasy if its really convincing cant become dated for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.

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.

You can't just let nature run wild.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

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.

You can design and create and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Do a good job. You dont have to worry about the money it will take care of itself. Just do your best work then try to trump it.

Disneyland is the star everything else is in the supporting role.

Dreams offer too little collateral.

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.

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.

Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

We dont make movies to make money we make money to make more movies.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Here in Florida we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland...the blessing of size. Theres enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

If we didnt have deadlines wed stagnate.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history adventure and learning together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Too many people grow up. Thats the real trouble with the world too many people grow up. They forget. They dont remember what its like to be 12 years old. They patronize they treat children as inferiors. Well I wont do that.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Laughter is America's most important export.

When youre curious you find lots of interesting things to do.

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 always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Disneyland is a show.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

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.

I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

If you can dream it you can do it.

I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Believe in your dreams no matter how impossible they seem.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

We keep moving forward opening new doors and doing new things because were curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

When you believe in a thing believe in it all the way implicitly and unquestionable.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

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.

Why worry If youve done the very best you can worrying wont make it any better.

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.

But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

The more you like yourself the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique.

We love to entertain kings and queens but at Disneyland everyone is a V.I.P.

Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun of learning things and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends.

Think, believe, dream, and dare.

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.

I believe in being an innovator.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

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.

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.

The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

The difference in winning and losing is most often not quitting.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

When you believe in a thing believe in it all the way implicitly and unquestionably.

Disneyland is Vegas for children.

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

Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

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.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldnt know how to get along without it.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.