Disneyland Quotes

Sometimes work is a bit slow, and I always wanted to be a princess at Disneyland. There were 1,500 of us who auditioned, and 11 of us were hired. I went through all of the training, but never ended up actually getting to play Belle because ‘Revenge‘ started. It was the time of my life, though!

Growing up in Poland, I didn’t have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don’t have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that’s kind of what Chicago is for economists.

The purpose of Disneyland is to make people smile.

At Disneyland, you never go ‘backstage‘ – even when you’re in the bathroom.

I love Disneyland because the teacups are so awesome. But California Adventure is the best.

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

I just want to be able to get on an airplane and enjoy myself in Disneyland, not sit there worrying about all these assassins.

When I was a kid, at Disneyland, they used to sell Animation Cels for $5.00 at a Fantasyland store. They were called Courvoisier Cels. I was too young to be aware of just how cool that really was.

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

It doesn’t matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

We’re an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.

I feel like there’s this great balance between me being an actress and traveling around and doing all this great stuff but, also, me being the regular teenager, like going to Disneyland with friends and just hanging out.

I can’t remember if I got recognized at Disneyland. I probably did a couple of times as well, but I can’t remember.

The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.

I used to live above Manganaro’s, when old Times Square was still peaking, and it still had a lot of diners and theaters on the forty deuce, as they used to call it. It was full of character. And it wasn’t Disneyland. Now it’s so touristy and full of bright lights, I can’t stand it. It’s like going to a big mall.

Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.

The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times.

As a little girl, I didn’t dream of being a ballet dancer; I dreamt of being a movie star like Ginger Rogers and dancing with Fred Astaire. I used to watch the Sunday double-bills on TV and Iong to be part of what seemed a perfect Disneyland world. Astaire was a genius.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

Fans are people, and people sometimes get mad at air. I know I do. So I have people huff at me because I’m not doing what they want, but I also have people get mad because I use profanity, or because I exist in material space, or because I was at Disneyland when they thought I should be writing.

I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I’d been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I’d been to L.A.

Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I’d do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.

I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and Bloomberg. This is now one of the best-run big cities in the world.

I kind of feel like I grew up at Disneyland.

My two best friends, they love amusement parks. They are such roller-coaster daredevils, and they drag me on every single roller coaster they can find. Some of my favorite experiences have been when they’ve taken me to Disneyland or Six Flags or Universal.

I’ve only been to Disneyland once, when I was 8.

The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you’re driving up ‘There it is! We’re arriving!’

Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It’s amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I’m just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It’s the happiest place on earth, right?

What we’re doing on ‘The West Wing’ is fictional. It’s not a place to learn about politics or government. Has there ever been a fundraiser on ‘The West Wing?’ No. So right there, you’re in Disneyland.

I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it’s sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there’s always some inspiration in the morning‘s headlines.

You can go at the premiere it’s at Disneyland.

You can’t get anymore classic than being a part of a Disney animated film. To me, that’s something I can have in my back pocket for the rest of my life. I’ll be able to show it to my kids. I’ll be walking around Disneyland, and it’ll be bizarre to shake hands with Rapunzel.

I’ve been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I’m getting really tired of Disneyland.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

The British are much more cynical and regard the idea of a Globe reconstruction as an Elizabethan Disneyland. But the Americans have a real hunger for what they see as their history, their culture and their Shakespeare.

There is a common British delusion that we ‘understand‘ America. We don’t. Watching ‘Friends’ listening to Bruce Springsteen, eating at McDonald‘s and visiting Disneyland does not do it.

I’m not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don’t really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.

Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.

The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would become that.

Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers‘ natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend not to attract idle browsers who make impulse purchases.

I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.

I was out here at East Lake, on a property I had never seen, and I was just like a kid at Disneyland walking around. There was only 30 guys. Thinking about how this is the big goal everyone is looking forward to at the end of the year and I’m fortunate enough to make it.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

When I was 16 or 17, I remember kissing one of my first girlfriends, Kim Anderson, under a stairwell at Disneyland. I’ll never forget that feeling.