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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.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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 never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
You reach a point where you don’t work for money.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
You can’t just let nature run wild.