Top 292 Disney Quotes

I always liked Disney films. To this day I think ‘Bambi’ is great.

I remember having a feeling like, ‘I can’t believe this is happening!’ Two years ago I was auditioning for The Disney Channel, and now Paul Rudd is saying, ‘Hey man, congratulations on your Emmy nomination!’

I’m privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.

Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.

I used to take my little Disney figurines and turn them into stop-motion animation.

Walt Disney always said, ‘For every laugh, there should be a tear.’ I believe in that.

I was just a little girl watching TV and wanting to be in it. My parents had no idea how to get me there, but here I am as a part of this great cast on the Disney Channel. Truly, if you just want to do this, then you have to commit to it.

What we try to do at Disney and through Disney character voices is really maintain the integrity of our classic characters at all costs. So Ariel needs to be me for every project, and if there are any other Ariels floating around out there, it’s not necessarily Disney.

In some ways, ‘The Little Mermaid’ was old-fashioned. Rendered in the hand-drawn style, it was the last Disney animated feature to use cels and Xeroxing. Pixar and its CGI imitators soon made that rigorous process obsolete.

I love Disney movies.

At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.

Disney movies have had a tradition of excellent music since the beginning. Some of my favorites are ‘Fantasia,’ ‘Dumbo,’ ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Toy Story.’

I’m associated with Walt Disney, but dammit, everybody knows that I’m a bottom feeder.

I’ve done a movie called ‘Lemonade Mouth’ for Disney Channel, which was fun to do. I actually got discovered through an open casting call where anyone could audition.

I’m not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn’t expect to hear that. I think it was ‘A Whole New World’ from ‘Aladdin.’

Disney represents the future of filmmaking in North America.

I got into a fight with Walt Disney: I always pick the wrong people to fight with.

This is a Disney animated feature; it’s eternal, it’s history. What’s there to think about’

Of course ABC and its parent company Disney were right to cancel the sitcom ‘Roseanne’ after its eponymous star, Roseanne Barr, wrote a racist tweet.

I think The ‘Cheetah Girls’ was originally supposed to be one film, but then it became two and three, which was a huge deal. But like all Disney franchises, they have to come to an end at some point. I was so grateful we went out with a bang. I think we died off peacefully.

All I’ve been a part of has been thanks to the Disney company: the job, experience, travel, opportunities have come thanks to Disney. Working for Disney was not part of my original plan, but it was part of God’s, and it shows that God is still moving.

Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.

Cogsworth, the character I did on ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ could be a bit flamboyant onscreen, because basically, he is a cartoon. But they didn’t want Cogsworth to become Disney’s gay character, because it got around a gay man was playing him.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

I was trying to be so perfect and so cookie-cutter because everyone’s like, ‘Aim for that Disney audience! Be perfect! Don’t say anything wrong!’ And it’s just working out better for me just being me.

I’ve actually done three pilots for Disney. I met with the network when I was 16 years old and had just started acting. I would fly to Los Angeles to film pilots, then fly back to Dallas, where I grew up.

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

I think a lot of the Disney cartoons are scary when you watch them at a young age.

I wasn’t a kid trying to become famous. I wasn’t a part of any Disney Channel wheelhouse. I was basically a black kid whose parents put him into the business so he could go to college.

It all started when I was 4. I was watching a lot of ‘The Little Mermaid,’ and I loved that movie. I was going around the house singing – I wanted to be on Disney and everything; I wanted to be a princess.

Disney acting is a little more difficult than many people think it is. People feel like the characters aren’t deep, but as an actor, you try to do everything you can do the best of your ability.

The best holiday I went on as a kid was to Disney World. I wore the same Minnie Mouse dress for 5 days straight and refused to go on any rides apart from It’s A Small World. I think my parents wanted to kill me.

His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today.

I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All of life passed through the Limerick courthouse. Misery, malevolence, the dark side of humanity… I tell ya, it made ‘Angela’s Ashes’ look like ‘The Wonderful World of Disney.’

Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child’s pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.

Of all studios that should be doing 2-D animation, it should be Disney.

It’s really important to have subjects that people all over the world are familiar with, and the Disney films are really great that way.

Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is ‘Sleepers,’ so I wasn’t really taken to children’s movies.

I won’t speak for the entertainment industry. I speak for Disney. I’ve seen people in the industry come to work every morning paranoid about what the other person or other company is doing. That means you’re spending time and focus on somebody else’s business instead of your own.

I have about 4 albums of Disney songs, but the embarrassing part is that I know each song word for word, and have dances choreographed for most.

I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers.

I’ve always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

I have made 34 pictures, 10 of them for Disney, and none of them for Disney were really bad characters. So I think that recently I have kind of begun to hide behind certain actor’s devices in order to make a dividing line between what I used to do and the characters I have been asked to do today.

I don’t want this to come off bad at all, but I really don’t watch Disney shows. I don’t. I like the animated ones, but I just don’t have time to watch a lot of TV.

Balto’ was one of my favorite movies. Balto is the Disney character that’s like half-dog, half-wolf. There’s a statue of Balto in Central Park.

You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to a joyous resolution of, usually, marriage to a prince. ‘Into the Woods’ follows that template, then asks, ‘What happens after Happy Ever After?’

As a kid growing up in Southern California, I was a frequent visitor to the Disneyland and developed a deep love of the magic and wonder of Disney.

When I was 10, we drove to Disney World. When we arrived, what impressed me most was the meticulous attention to detail; there wasn’t a gum wrapper anyplace.

One of my biggest Disney influences in terms of world-building on this record was a background painter named Eyvind Earle, who was working in the ’50s. He would make hyper-modern shapes that were sharp retellings of pastoral themes.

I watch a lot of Disney. I want to catch ‘Hannah Montana Forever.’

I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.

I see Walt Disney as kind of the epitome of a dreamer. He was a very forward thinker.

Disney was a family film studio. I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with someone, that was the end of Disney.

Each Disney princess is unique in their own way, but Moana is especially close to my heart because she’s Polynesian.

From baby time to now, I wanted to be a Disney princess, and then I wanted to be a singer or an actress.

The basic idea for what became ‘Epic Mickey’ began at the Disney Think Tank.

Something happened when I was in elementary school. A Disney artist named Bruce McIntyre retired, and he had done drawings for ‘Pinocchio’ and ‘Snow White’ that was just classic stuff. He moved to the town I grew up in, Carlsbad, and he became a part-time art teacher at our elementary school.