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Quotes About Disney

Disney and I were a bad mix. For a year I was probably more depressed than I have ever been in my life. I worked for a great animator, Glenn Kean. He was nice, he was good to me, he's a really strong animator and he helped me. But he also kind of tortured me because I got all the cute fox scenes to draw, and I couldn't draw all those four-legged Disney foxes. I just couldn't do it. I couldn't even fake the Disney style. Mine looked like road kills.
~ Tim Burton
Is that Disney magic of pixie magic?" I kid... "It is life magic".
~ Carrie Jones
I think Disney would have accepted this movie if Walt Disney were still alive. Walt Disney not only had vision, but he was also an extremely adventurous person. He wasn't afraid.
~ J.W. Rinzler
My brother Ryan was on the Disney XD show 'Pair of Kings' where he played Lanny, the evil cousin to twin kings, for three seasons. His motivation to be a better actor always pushes me to work harder and try to be more like him. When he gets a role, he will study that character until he becomes that person.
~ Raymond Ochoa
When I first heard that they were going to make 'Beauty and the Beast' at Disney, I was like, 'Oh, God, there's no way I'm going to see that movie,' because I knew what that movie was, was just two people sitting down to dinner over and over and over again. But then when I went to see it, it was like, 'Oh, they made it work.'
~ Byron Howard
They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.
~ Shia LaBeouf
I just didn't realize the unbelievable impact Disney films had on American society until my assistant coached me on the stories and brought me up to speed.
~ Roger Ross Williams
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.
~ Bob Iger
Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.
~ Chuck Jones
This leads me to ask how it came to be that Pluto is Mickey's dog, but Mickey is not Pluto's mouse. Something is awry in the taxonomic class of mammals in the Disney universe. I
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
the Disney pantheon that if you wear clothes, you can own other animals who do not
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.
~ Annette Funicello
I'm a Disney fan. Like, seriously, if I see Mickey Mouse, I light up.
~ LeToya Luckett
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.
~ Blake Michael
Growing up, I was always really inspired by Disney, and I had a great love of everything they created. My mum was huge fan, and she used to collect stills, and so they were all around the house, and we very much grew up on the early Disney films.
~ Stella McCartney
As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.
~ Graydon Carter
Nobody does animation better than Disney; it's just that some of us wanted out of the box. Burton was one. I was another. We were the mutual complaint society.
~ Henry Selick
Disney was, like, such an amazing experience always for me, such a huge part of my life.
~ Jake Paul
Working at Disney makes you aware of the family image of the studio. There are no naughty words used on the set like there were on the all-male cast of 'Hogan's Heroes.'
~ Bob Crane
The venerable Walt Disney commercial empire had established around the turn of the century one of the largest "theme parks" in the country, on a bulldozed, reclaimed piece of New York City that had once been a slum.
~ Gerard K. O'Neill
You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
Any time you design a character for a Disney picture, especially a fairy tale, it's going to become the definitive design for that character, so you don't want to hack something out. You need to put in the kind of care it warrants if it's going to live in history.
~ Glen Keane
I eyed him. Are you really Jamaican? He returned my gaze evenly. Why do you think I'm not, sistah? I don't know, I said. I have to admit, pretty much everything I know about Jamaica comes from watching Cool Runnings , and I'm guessing a Disney movie about Olympic bobsledders isn't the most accurate reference material.
~ Jacqueline Carey
I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'
~ John Lasseter