"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, …"

"Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disa…"

"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique."

"I prefer to amuse people in the hope that they will learn, than to teach them in the hope that they will have fun."

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