I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
You can't just let nature run wild.
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
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.
I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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.
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.