If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.
Biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem. Getting the money to open Disneyland. About seventeen million it took. And we had everything mortgaged including my personal insurance.
There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out. Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into other fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests.
Well I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. They will cut of your ear if they don't like your face, it's babaric, but hey, it's home.
I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.
Disneyland is a work of love.
Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America...
Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun.
The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others
Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.
There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.
When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified.
I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.
Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.
Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.
The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.
If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.
I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.
Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.
All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.
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.
In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.
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.
Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.
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