Lillian Disney Quotes

Enthusiasm and optimism together. He was enthusiastic about everything. He never thought anything would turn out badly.
----Lillian Disney (on Walt) ~ Marcy Carriker Smothers

If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke. ~ Walt Disney

There is only one name on the door at Walt Disney Imagineering. ~ Marty Sklar

No matter how the wind howls. The mountain cannot bow to it. ~ Walt Disney Company

Your library makes our small corner of the world feel big... ~ Belle (Beauty & The Beast)

We are hidiously rich Annabelle
and I've got three older brothers, all unmarried. Would you consider one of them? If you like, I'll have one shipped across the Atlantic for your inspection. -Lillian Bowman ~ Lisa Kleypas

When I was seven, I gave a letter to Cinderella in Disney World asking if I could be in a Disney movie. So, working for Disney was really a childhood dream come true. ~ Brittany Curran

We live and we love the world, Lillian thinks, and we kid ourselves that the world loves us back. ~ Amy Bloom

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. ~ Lillian Hellman

Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is. ~ Lillian Gordy Carter

Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter. ~ Walt Disney

Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them? ~ Lillian Hellman

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier. ~ Roy E. Disney

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made. ~ Tommy Kirk

When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice. ~ Keri Russell

Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous. ~ Lillian Hellman

Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort. ~ Walt Disney Company

Levay stated that the followers of Satan should consider Walt Disney as one of their guides. ~ Gary Margrove

Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe. ~ Walt Disney

I'm a big fan of Disney's animated movies, or at least of most of them. I don't know what it is, but the songs get stuck in my head. There is a Disney song for every situation you encounter in life. Some people quote The Godfather. Some quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I quote Walt Disney. Those are the true classics. ~ Judah Smith

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. ~ Lillian Hellman

In fact, the family as an institution is both oppressive and protective and, depending on the issue, is experienced sometimes one way, sometimes the other - often in some mix of the two - by most people who live in families. ~ Lillian B. Rubin

She was a Disney Princess and Rider the rogue bad guy. ~ V. Theia

I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. ~ Walt Disney

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes. ~ Lillian Hellman

The only way to describe my involvement in 'Planes' is that it's an absolute dream come true for me. Getting to be a bad guy in any project is fun, let alone being a Disney villain. I can't imagine anything getting better than that! ~ Roger Craig Smith

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. ~ Walt Disney Company

Everyone's weird, I'm just a bit bizarre. ~ Pennie Lillian

Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world. ~ Walt Disney Company

Much of the colony's musical experimenting was, quite consciously, concerned with what might be called "time span." What was the briefest note that the mind could grasp - or the longest that it could tolerate without boredom? Could the result be varied by conditioning or by the use of appropriate orchestration? Such problems were discussed endlessly, and the arguments were not purely academic. They had resulted in some extremely interesting compositions. But it was in the art of the cartoon film, with its limitless possibilities, that New Athens had made its most successful experiments. The hundred years since the time of Disney had still left much undone in this most flexible of all mediums. On the purely realistic side, results could be produced indistinguishable from actual photography - much to the contempt of those who were developing the cartoon along abstract lines. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

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

Lillian was always so good at treating everything like a test, like some kind of game where the prize was shiny and untouchable. Perfection. She wanted me to back off, butt out, stop trying to control her life. And she wanted me to save her. ~ Brenna Yovanoff

I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do. ~ Walt Disney

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending. ~ Julie Kagawa

You are a rebellion, a useless retaliation against a ghost. And when the novelty of his vulgar bride wears thin, the earl will come to despise you as I do. But by then it will be too late. The lineage will be ruined."
Lillian remained expressionless, though she felt the color drain from her face. No one, she realized, had ever looked at her with real hatred until now. It was clear that the countess wished every ill upon her short of death- perhaps not even barring that. Rather than shrink, cry, or protest, however, Lillian found herself launching a counterattack. "Maybe he wants to marry me as a retaliation against you, my lady. In which case I am delighted to serve as the means of reprisal. ~ Lisa Kleypas

It is only animals served in their natural state that I seem to have difficulty with."
"Of course you do, darling. We're barbarians, the lot of us, and you were perfectly right to be appalled by the calves' heads. I don't like them, either. In fact, I rarely consume beef in any form."
"Are you a vegetarian, then?" Lillian asked, having heard the word frequently of late. Many discussions had centered on the topic of the vegetable system of diet that was being promoted by a hospital society in Ramsgate.
St. Vincent responded with a dazzling smile. "No, sweet, I'm a cannibal. ~ Lisa Kleypas

In England in the 19th century, advances in printing methods, combined with the rise of a prosperous middle class, engendered a booming new industry of books published just for children. Casting about for cheap story material, English publishers laid hands on the subtle, sensual adult fairy tales of the Continental tradition and revised them into simpler stories instilled with Victorian values. Although these simplified versions retained much of the violence of the older stories, elements of sexuality and moral complexity were carefully scrubbed away - along with the fiesty heroines who appeared everywhere in the older tales, tamed now into models of Victorian propiety and passivity. In the 20th century, the Walt Disney Studios watered down the tales further still in popular animated films like Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, continuing the trend of turning active heroines into powerless damsels in distress. Walt Disney considered even the Victorian versions of the tales too dark for 20th century audiences. "It's just that people now don't want fairy stories the way they were written," Disney commented. "They were too rough." ~ Terri Windling

Disney World has acquired by now something of the air of a national shrine. American parents who don't take their children there sense obscurely that they have failed in some fundamental way, like Muslims who never made it to Mecca. ~ Simon Hoggart

Do anything better than it was ever done before and youll get rich. ~ Walt Disney

I like to think that nothing's final, and that everyone gets to be together even when it looks like they don't, that it all works out even when all the evidence seems to say something else, that you and I are always young in the woods, and that I'll see you sometime again, even if it's not with any kind of eyes I know of or understand. I wouldn't be surprised if that is the way things go after all - that all things end happy. ~ Jodi Lynn Anderson