Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

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

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

" It's kind of fun to do the impossible. "

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

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

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

" Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" A man should never neglect his family for business. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Laughter is America's most important export. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world. "

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

" 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. "

" If you can dream it, you can do it. "

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

" 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. "