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.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
Laughter is America's most important export.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
I believe in being an innovator.
Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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.
The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.
I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.
Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall.
