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When I was about 17 or 18, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't going to change. I didn't know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career.

— Tommy Kirk

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.

— Ike Turner

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

— Jason Mraz

I'd got a part in the original cast of 'Cats' when I was 16, and that kept me going for a while. After that, I felt lost, both personally and professionally - I was trying to find a way not to be seen only as this bubbly, bright, vivacious person. It felt like I'd lost the freedom to make mistakes.

— Bonnie Langford

The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.

— Zendaya

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

— Robert H. Schuller

When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor.

— Lupita Nyong'o

Disney was a family film studio. I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with someone, that was the end of Disney.

— Tommy Kirk

Disney has been such a big part of my early career. I've done two pilots for Disney, and I've been working with them since I was 16, and I just turned 21.

— Spencer Boldman

✗Opposing Perspectives

The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.

— Christy Romano

It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

— Gwyneth Paltrow