| | Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. |
| | 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. |
| | A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater. |
| | A man should never neglect his family for business. |
| | All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. |
| | All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. |
| | 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. |
| | Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. |
| | Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource — the minds of our children. |
| | Disneyland is the star. Everything else is in the supporting role. |
| | Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work — then try to trump it. |
| | Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it. |
| | Everyone needs deadlines. Even the beavers. They loaf around all summer, but when they are faced with the winter deadline, they work like fury. If we didn't have deadlines, we'd stagnate. |
| | Fantasy, when properly done in the one medium best adapted to its nature, need never stale for the family taste. |
| | For every laugh, there should be a tear. |
| | Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it's done right. |
| | Girls bored me — they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known. |
| | I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral. |
| | I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things. |
| | I don't make films for children. I make films that children aren't embarrassed to take their parents to. |
| | I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle. |
| | I've never believed in doing sequels. I didn't want to waste the time I have doing a sequel; I'd rather be using that time doing something new and different. |
| | Ideas come from curiosity. |
| | If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. |
| | Inside every sophisticated grownup adult is a little kid just dying to get out. |
| | It’s a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young. |
| | Laughter is America's most important export. |
| | People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us. |
| | The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. |
| | There's nothing funnier than the human animal. |
| | When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity. |
| | Without inspiration we would perish. |
| | Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. |
| | A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there...in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive. |
| | Childishness? I think it’s the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. |
| | I've always maintained that you can't just coast, if you do, you go backwards. |