Famous quotes by Cartoonists

"A man should never neglect his family for business"

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

"I just became one with my browser software"

"I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it"

"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality"

"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"

"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"

"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do"

"When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable"

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

"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths"

"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"

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

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

"We allow no geniuses around our Studio"

"There's nothing funnier than the human animal"

"Laughter is America's most important export"

"It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment"

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible"

"If you can dream it, you can do it"

"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"

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

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

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

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

"Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal"

"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"

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