Walt Disney Quotes
320 Walt Disney Quotes
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My dad was an impatient person. But he knew what he wanted to do and he expected you to know just what he wanted to do…
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My dad… wanted his children to get fully educated. He was fighting for ‘em and everything. He was a good dad.
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I never discounted the intelligence in my kids… I talk to my kids… You know, people don’t realize sometimes that a child has a lot of good reasoning, you know?
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[On his father being very careful spending money] The funny thing is, I didn’t inherit any of that thrift.
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[On his father asking ‘Walter, what can it be used for?’ on him building his state-of-the-art studio in Burbank in 1939 and showing him the construction site] I couldn’t quite grasp what he was after and suddenly it dawned on me. He meant if we failed how could we liquidate… how could we get our money back out of it, see? So I was, ‘Now this would make a perfect hospital.’… I went through the whole darn studio and explained the thing to him as a hospital. He was happy.
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[On father when his mother died in 1938 in an accident] He was just lost without her. It was the darnedest thing. After she died, I never felt so sorry for anybody in my life as I did my dad… It was a very sad thing.
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Many of us fondly remember our ‘small home town’ and its friendly way of life at the turn of the century. To me, this era represents an important part of our heritage…
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Main Street represents the typical small town in the early 1900s – the heartline of America.
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We had every brick and shingle and gas lamp made five-eights true size. This cost more, but made the street a toy, and the imagination can play more freely with a toy.
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People like to think their world is somehow more grown up than [their] Papa’s was.
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[In 1931 the artists in Mickey Mouse Films] Make rough cat villains to resemble Wallace Beery and smooth, polished cat villains to look like Erich von Stroheim.
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[On the public in 1931] We have found out that they want most to laugh. We learned after hard lessons, too, that the public wants its heroes. Most of all we learned that the American public loves dance music.
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I used to work very hard on gag situations. I set up a special group of fellows just to work on [those] situations.
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[In 1931] It is not our job to teach, implant morals, or improve anything except our pictures. If Mickey [Mouse] has a bit of practical philosophy to offer the younger generation, it is to keep on trying. That’s what we do who make animated cartoons.
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[On an early problem with audiences who wanted] Everything to be the same.
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[On working late into the night while his wife Lillian feel asleep on the davenport in his office] Suddenly I’d look at my watch and it’d be 1:30. I’d look at her, she’d be sound asleep, and I’d keep working till I finished. So I’d go in and wake her up and she’d say ‘What time is it?’ and I’d say 10:30, and we’d go home and she’d go to bed and never know.
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[On the industry in the early days] Everybody had ambition; everybody wanted to be a producer.
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I’m going to go independent. I’m going to own [my films]. And I stuck to it.
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[On never being at the mercy of a [film] distributor again] You can lick them with ‘product’.
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I used to be less tolerant in those days because there was more pressure of that payroll and getting that picture out… I guess I was a pretty tough guy at times…
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I’ve never really been unhappy.
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I was the salesman.
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[To Ub Iwerks in 1928] Show some of your old SPEED. Work like hell BOY. It is our one BIG CHANCE to make a real killing. Forget a lot of the fancy curves and pretty looking drawings and devote your time to the ACTION. You can do it – I know you can… GIVE HER HELL… Don’t tell me it can’t be done. It has got to be done… So quit acting nervous and fidgety. Forget everything… [and] get that DAMN picture back here in time.
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[On Ub Iwerk leaving] I just can’t feel that he would do a thing like that. This boy has been loyal to us.
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[On Ub Iwerks] You couldn’t go out and ever hope to hire a man who was as well schooled in optics as Ub; he’s a genius.
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People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working…The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
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[On Adolf Hitler] Mr A. Hitler, the Nazi old thing, says that Mickey’s silly. Imagine that!
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[In 1928] None of our profits [are] going to some leech sitting at a big mahogany desk telling us what to do.
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They are all a bunch of schemers and just full of tricks that would fool a greenhorn… [I feel] like a sheep amongst a pack of wolves.
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The public likes little fellows in comedy. Everyone picks on them and sympathy is aroused. So when they finally triumph over the bigger characters, the public rejoices with them.
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I’m not interested in money, except for what I can do with it to advance my work.
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[On the popularity of The Three Little Pigs ] I don’t know. You’ve got me. I’d like to find out myself just why people liked them. Then I’d know better how to do it again. We’re just feeling our way here.
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What was our original purpose? Why, to make people laugh. To make good comedies. To entertain.
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It’s not just a cartoon. We have new worlds to conquer here.
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The first duty of the cartoon is not to picture or duplicate a real action or things as they actually happen, but to give a caricature of life and action… The point must be made clear to the men that our study of the actual is not so that we may be able to accomplish the actual, but so that we may have a basis upon which to go into the fantastic, the unreal, the imaginative – and yet to let it have a foundation of fact, in order that it may more richly possess sincerity and contact with the public… I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real unless we first know the real.
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We cannot do the fantastic things based on the real unless we first know the real.
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Don’t tell me it can’t be done. It has got to be done…
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Once you’ve lived through the worst, you’re never quite as vulnerable afterwards.
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Work is the real adventure in life. Money is merely a means to make more work possible.
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I think that everything that ever happened to me was a good turn.
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BONUS: (A writer on Walt Disney in 1933) – Invent your own job; take such an interest in it that you eat, sleep, dream, walk, talk, and live nothing but your work until you succeed.
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