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Walt Disney Quotes

Born On
1901-12-05
Died On
1966-12-15
Birth Place
Chicago
Death Place
Burbank
Birth Sign
sagittarius
Father
Elias Disney
Mother
Flora Call Disney
Spouse
Lillian Bounds
Nationality
American
Education
Benton Grammar School, Kansas City Art Institute, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Business People, Film & Theater Personalities, T V & Movie Producers, Voice Actors

Walt Disney has been described as a control-freak by many and stories about his domineering nature are abundant. The Anaheim Disneyland was built on an area sprawling over a few hundred acres but Walt Disney was not happy about the motels that had mushroomed near the recreational space. He said these dwellings made Disneyland look like a 'cheap Vegas'. Disney had amassed a great fortune and reputation by the 1960s and he set about fulfilling his dream of building a new amusement park in Orange County, located in the state of California.

As there were chances of real estate prices sky-rocketing if investors got a hint of his plans, Walt acquired the lands through proxies. But driven by the compulsion to oversee if everything was going as planned, he made it a point to visit these sites. It was during one such time that he was at a restaurant, where a waitress asked him, "Pardon me, aren't you Walt Disney?" To this he replied, "No, and if I ever see that blankety-blank Disney I'll give him a piece of my mind!" Before the sellers got to know the truth, Walt Disney had already acquired land twice the size of Manhattan for the construction of the theme park.

.When he decided to make a half-hour long film titled 'Seal Island', distributors told him there was no market. The animator still went ahead with his idea and Seal Island went on to win an Oscar. The tenacity of this man resulted in the making of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and several other path-breaking animated feature films.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Change Future
Walt Disney

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Hope Imagination
Walt Disney

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Motivation
Walt Disney

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Motivation Dreams
Walt Disney

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Life Strength
Walt Disney

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Life Positivity
Walt Disney

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

People Reality World
Walt Disney

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Courage
Walt Disney

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Curiosity
Walt Disney

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Fun
Walt Disney

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Communication Language
Walt Disney

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Funny Love
Walt Disney

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Walt Disney

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Life Work
Walt Disney

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Entertainment Influence
Walt Disney

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Family Business
Walt Disney

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

World Imagination
Walt Disney

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

People Education Hope
Walt Disney

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Wisdom
Walt Disney

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Things Imagination
Walt Disney

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Nature
Walt Disney

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Appreciation Communication Mind
Walt Disney

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

Books
Walt Disney

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Things
Walt Disney

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

Thinking
Walt Disney

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

People Chance
Walt Disney

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

Money Work
Walt Disney

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Ideas
Walt Disney

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Walt Disney

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

People
Walt Disney

You can't just let nature run wild.

Nature
Walt Disney

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

People Pleasure World Information
Walt Disney

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

Things Work
Walt Disney

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

Family Parents
Walt Disney

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

Personality
Walt Disney

I believe in being an innovator.

Walt Disney

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Art Business Work
Walt Disney

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

Chance Public
Walt Disney

Laughter is America's most important export.

America Laughter
Walt Disney

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

Self-Reliance
Walt Disney

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 disaster seemed right around the corner.

Business Time Mind
Walt Disney

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

People
Walt Disney

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Language
Walt Disney

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

People
Walt Disney

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Nature Fantasy
Walt Disney

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

Nothing
Walt Disney

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Walt Disney

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

Things
Walt Disney

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

Things World
Walt Disney

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Love Money Business Work
Walt Disney

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

Walt Disney

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

Walt Disney

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.

People Knowledge
Walt Disney

Disneyland is a show.

Walt Disney

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

Walt Disney

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

Life Money
Walt Disney

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