"I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination."

"I don't believe in saturated markets. I believe in saturated minds."

"If a woman can do the work as well, she is worth as much as a man."

"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 disa…"

"I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man."