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Walt Disney Quotes - Page 15

All Quotes Achievement Adventure Adversity Age Art Attitude Being Yourself Business Character Children Communication Critics Curiosity Design Determination Disneyland Effort Evil Fame Family Feelings Fighting Fun Giving Graduation Greatness Growing Up Hard Work Heart Home Humanity Imagination Innovation Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Joy Language Laughter Leadership Learning Life Lying Magic Memories Motivational Moving Forward Moving On Parenting Past Persistence Personality Positive Positive Thinking Quality Quitting Reality Running Study Success Teamwork Today Work Worry

Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.

Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.

Appearance, Fooled, Commonplace

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.

Being Yourself, Individuality, Would Be

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life - drama, pathos and humor.

Drama, Optimistic, Laughing

"How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.

Kings, President, Want

I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.

Feelings, Experiments, Ought

If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.

Getting High, Fame, Fortune

We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on.

Home, Kissing, Hades

"Fictional character: Hades". "Hercules", www.imdb.com. 1997.

I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.

Children, Believe, Flower

"Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.

Fun, Problem, Projects

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.

Teaching, Organization, Want

I never intended to make art.

Art, Destiny

To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.

Crazy, Mistake, Average

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.

Real, Giving, Imagination

It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy.

Character, Giving, Imagination

We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.

Discovery, Ideas, Humanity

It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.

Life, Kids, Imagination

Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.

Communication, Humanity, Survival

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

Animal, Humans, Human Animal

It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.

Children, Parent, Wish

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

Art, Language, Storytelling

Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.

Men, Careers, Want

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

Disney Animation, Different, Language

Disneyland is a show.

Reality, Shows, Disneyland

Frying pans! Who knew, right?

Tangled, Frying Pans, Riders

"Fictional character: Flynn Rider". "Tangled", www.imdb.com. 2010.

I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

America, Tolerance, Democracy

Radio address "Our American Culture" broadcast during an intermission of the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 1941.

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