Walt Disney Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Walt Disney:

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

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

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

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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.

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

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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.

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

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Laughter is America's most important export.

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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

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You can't just let nature run wild.

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

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Disneyland is a show.

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We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

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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.

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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

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I believe in being an innovator.

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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

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

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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

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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.

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I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

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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.

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If you can dream it, you can do it.

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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

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

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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.

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