If you can dream it, you can do it.
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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.
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.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
You can't just let nature run wild.
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 disa...
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
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.
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...
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.