Walt Disney

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

You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks… until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn't mean you have a great picture. You have pathos in the thing.

I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators — a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music — a study of rhythm, the dance — the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.

When you start to caricature a person, you can't do it without knowing the person.

Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Animated cartoons are more expensive to make than live-action films. Where they pay off is on revivals. Every seven years they come back for a new audience. And they don't date like live action does.

I've often been told how lucky I am not to have any stars to go temperamental on me. It's true I never have any trouble with Mickey, the three pigs or any of my characters. But don't ever think animators can't be temperamental. Say, they can be just as bad as any star you ever saw.

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

The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.

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.

The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

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

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Laughter is America's most important export.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

Animation offers a medium of storytelling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages around the world.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.