I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

• I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
• All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... 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 may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
• Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
• A man should never neglect his family for business.
• 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 disaster seemed right around the corner.
• I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
• 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.
• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.