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1901–1966 United States
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (5 December, 1901 – 15 December, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator. One of the most well-known motion picture producers in the world, Disney was also the artist responsible for works in a variety of other media, the creator of Disneyland and Walt Disney World, and the founder of The Walt Disney Company, the world's largest entertainment and media organization, Walt Disney characters including Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Mary Poppins, Pinocchio and many others.
United States Actors Anti-communists Businesspeople Cartoonists Also known as: Disney, Disney, Walt, Huey, Dewey, and Louie
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company.
Interview with David Griffiths (1959)
That's a 30-year-old woman you're bringing me.
Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future.
I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.
I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life — drama, pathos and humor.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
Every person has his own ideas of the act of praying for God's guidance, tolerance, and mercy to fulfill his duties and responsibilities.
Deeds Rather Than Words (1963)
Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
Success (2003)
Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work — then try to trump it.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.
Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.
EPCOT promotional film (1966)
We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
Animated Architecture (1982)
Girls bored me — they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
You Must Remember This (1975)
All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country who are just as corny as I am.
We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea.
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