"Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them."
Walt Disney
Animator, Film Producer
Walt Disney was a pioneering animator and filmmaker, known for creating iconic characters and founding Disneyland, revolutionizing family entertainment.
- Born
- December 5, 1901
- Died
- December 15, 1966
- Quotes
- 395
- Rank
- #295
Quote collection
Walt Disney quotes (page 16 of 20)
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"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."
"First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream.And finally, dream."
"You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth."
"I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean."
"At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks... until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn't mean you have a great picture. You have pathos in the thing."
"I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it."
"Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things."
"If we didn't have deadlines, we'd stagnate."
"I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better."
"In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget."
"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."
"The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy."
"A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music."
"We allow no geniuses around our Studio."
"You reach a point where you don't work for money."
"I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real."
"Tomorrow can be a wonderful age."
"I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment."
"Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world."