Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

You can't just let nature run wild.

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

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.

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

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

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.