Top 100 Quotes About Walt Disney
#1. What did that Walt Disney song say? Someday my prince will come? Well, mine came alright ... and I don't think Disney would make a song out of it
D.H. Starr
#2. I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka ... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
Kanye West
#3. Look at the films of Walt Disney: 'Snow White' came out in February 1938, and I can't think of another film from that year that's watched as much. The same is true of 'Bambi,' 'Dumbo' ... even, frankly, 'Toy Story,' which is probably watched more than any other movie of 1995.
John Lasseter
#4. Levay stated that the followers of Satan should consider Walt Disney as one of their guides.
Gary Margrove
#5. Across the river, a row of crystal castles glittered in the sunlight in a way that would make Walt Disney want to throw rocks at his Magic Kingdom.
Shannon Messenger
#6. I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World.
Anne Hull
#7. It had been fun to ride the fairy tale of Baz Acker actually giving a shit about him, but he knew firsthand fairy tales were a lot more Grimm brothers and much less Walt Disney.
Heidi Cullinan
#8. When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.
John Lasseter
#10. What do you mean 'speaking of fairy tales'? Since when do fairy tales include gigolos?" Annie asked.
"Well, since most fairy-tale princes are either gay or weirdly attached to their mommies, I think Walt Disney should seriously consider their inclusion," Sophie answered.
Elle Aycart
#11. Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child's ideal introduction to movie magic. Yet Walt Disney taught moral lessons in the most useful way: by scaring the poop out of the little ones.
Richard Corliss
#12. Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.
Steve Erickson
#13. Though it isn't obvious from the bowdlerized versions in Walt Disney , the tales are filled with murder,infanticide,cannibalism, mutilation, and sexual abuse - grimm fairy tales indeed.
Steven Pinker
#14. I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was 'I don't belong here.' Then I said, 'I'm here; let's get on with it.'
Jason Kilar
#15. In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.
And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman's family.
Chris Bohjalian
#16. Walt Disney has been described as an innovator, which means he took things that already existed and re-combined them to create something new.
Jim Korkis
#17. Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck.
Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney ever created.
Ridley Pearson
#18. I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.
John Lasseter
#19. Walt Disney: An American Original, "a man gave birth to a mouse. The mouse built the man an empire.
Jeffrey Barnes
#20. We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction.
Janet Macunovich
#21. I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you don't see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see 'Bambi' alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.
Matthew Gray Gubler
#22. There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. - WALT DISNEY
Ellery Adams
#23. Most castles in the air are never built. But Walt Disney's was.
Eve Zibart
#24. You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.
William McDonough
#25. It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.
Jack Zipes
#26. I look like Walt Disney just threw up.
Ryan Stiles
#27. The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.
John Lasseter
#28. I loved The Wind in the Willows ... Walt Disney should be sued for cheapening it as he did. Imagine it, Mickey Mousing all those nice characters. I'm surprised he didn't do it with the New Testament.
Tasha Tudor
#29. A world remade in the image of Walt Disney, and driven by an increasingly sophisticated communications technology, is the total breakdown of civilization.20
Morris Berman
#30. I'm never quite sure how far to go with praising young kids because the next thing you will see him probably driving a Mercedes and he'll have his socks over his knees and four earrings in and a Walt Disney hat.
Paul Lambert
#31. 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
#33. In the early 1990s, Target adopted some of Walt Disney's staff training and customer service initiatives. It has since developed a variety of methods - from hiring to coaching to grading performance - to ensure "team members" embody the motto "fast, fun and friendly." (See Chapter 5.)
Laura Rowley
#35. There's the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There's this flavor at DreamWorks, and Pixar does their own thing, and generally they're safe. But if you look at Walt Disney's original films, at the time and in the context, they weren't safe. They were really dark and troubling.
Henry Selick
#36. No matter where they are or who they're with, dogs are incapable of being anything but themselves. Show me a dog that puts on airs or laughs politely at an unfunny joke and I'll show you a human in a dog costume, possibly one owned and licensed by the Walt Disney Company.
Meghan Daum
#37. Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults.
Dick Van Dyke
#38. Walt Disney character Pinocchio said: 'When you wish upon a star It does not matter who you are
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#39. I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.
Keith Haring
#40. Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.
John Ralston Saul
#41. I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.
Bob Iger
#42. My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.
John Updike
#43. Childhood is a naturally unhappy period of our existence, Lillian. It was Walt Disney who invented the notion that it has to be happy, simply to make money.
Isabel Allende
#44. I want to be the next Walt Disney, only a little more wicked.
American McGee
#45. While not my personal favorite of the Disney princess films, 'The Little Mermaid' wins hands-down in my book for best Disney adaptation. Little girls waited for more than 150 years for Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid' to have a happy ending. Walt Disney finally gave it to her.
Alethea Kontis
#46. We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.
Bob Iger
#47. Mickey Mouse was supposed to be called Mortimer, but Walt Disney's wife found it creepy
Adam Anderson
#48. The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it, so that the power of their imagination keeps them suspended in mid-air; but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.
Raoul Vaneigem
#50. There is only one name on the door at Walt Disney Imagineering.
Marty Sklar
#51. In market valuation, Yahoo is worth about as much Walt Disney and the News Corporation combined.
Alex Berenson
#52. Now that had worked very successfully at Pixar, and he ended up adding one at Walt Disney Animation and one at DTS. So, I'm part of that Brain Trust where I sit in on all things creative for the whole studio, but especially in the Planes area.
Klay Hall
#53. I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!
Marc Davis
#54. 'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.
John Lasseter
#55. There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
Zac Posen
#56. Walt Disney believed in himself instead of worrying what others were saying.
Chris Brogan
#57. I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.
Leonard Maltin
#58. The message, never stated but avuncularly implied, is that America's values ought to reflect those of the Walt Disney Company and not the other way around.
Carl Hiaasen
#59. Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests.
Twyla Tharp
#60. I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
John Lasseter
#61. I blame Walt Disney; well he has to find voice actors better than me somehow doesn't he?
Zach Braff
#62. There are people that I am in love with, totally in love with them. I would die for them. I love Michelangelo. I love Charlie Chaplin with all my heart. I love Walt Disney. These are the people I am nuts over. These are my people. I love the great ones.
Michael Jackson
#63. He had passed beyond the afflictions of this world. Walt Disney had at last attained perfection.
Neal Gabler
#64. I learned my first lesson at the Walt Disney Company about not being able to trust my associates.
Michael Ovitz
#65. The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.
Susan Cheever
#66. Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.
Jerome Kern
#67. Coffee beans are at their peak flavor for fourteen days from the roaster. Beyond that, they should be stored consistently below 0C/32F, ideally near the temperature where Walt Disney is kept.
Kevin Sinnott
#68. We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies. - Walt Disney
Austin Kleon
#69. Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.
Kevin Richardson
#70. studios down. (He also thought, frankly, that making us the stewards of both entities would guarantee that Pixar's traditions didn't get overtaken by those of the much larger corporation, the Walt Disney Company.)
Ed Catmull
#71. Walt Disney was a story man, and he knew that we were thinking story. That's why he dug us so much and he hired us to work for him. We always thought about the story. That was more important than any words and any music. That's all it's about.
Richard M. Sherman
#72. I got into a fight with Walt Disney: I always pick the wrong people to fight with.
Frank Tashlin
#73. Walt Disney was a great believer in the use of song to convey story. He was primarily a storyman & story-driven songs were his 'pets.' He always asked what was going on with the song - he hated 'singing heads.' He loved learning about character & motivation thru music & lyrics.
Richard Sherman
#74. We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#76. I believe in having total clarity around our goals. I believe in creating these goals together as a group and making sure they're aligned with Bob Iger's goals for the Walt Disney Co. And more than anything, making sure people understand that they have a responsibility to one another.
Anne Sweeney
#77. Randy and I were goggle-eyed as we gazed over the wonders of what Walt Disney had wrought. It was a magnificent demonstration of what God could do if He had more imagination.
Jack Paar
#78. Just watch Snow White. Just visit Disneyland or Walt Disney World in Florida - he was laying the plans for the Florida park while he was on his death bed. People kept telling him his dreams were impossible. Walt knew better. He had wished upon a star.
Pat Williams
#79. When you think about Walt [Disney]'s life, I don't know of anybody on Earth over the last hundred years who has touched as many people as he did. He's touched every nation on Earth.
Pat Williams
#80. I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.
Tom Stoppard
#81. Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with ... I like Walt Disney except that you know, except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them.
Mark Morris
#82. Walt Disney was a visionary leader. He had no leadership books or training courses to give him guidance. He operated, as many great leaders do, on instinct and observation.
Jim Korkis
#83. The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away.
Warren Spector
#84. I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney. In that I really like to make people happy.
Thomas Kinkade
#85. TV," I said, "do you believe in God?" "I believe," he said, "in Walt Disney." "You too!" We had clicked.
Glendon Swarthout
#86. Walt Disney World is nearly 30,000 acres, or 48 square miles. That is more than 80 times the size of Monaco. Grace Kelly would have been queen of a larger and wealthier, kingdom if she'd married Uncle Walt instead of Prince Rainier.
Eve Zibart
#87. Disneyland is such a big thing to Californians, I discovered that when you cross the border you have to raise your right hand and take an oath that you believe in Walt Disney.
Jack Paar
#88. Well, just to dispel all the myths, Walt [Disney] was not anti-Semitic. He was not racist in any way, shape, or form. He was not frozen when his life ended. He's not in some frozen vault right now waiting to make a big comeback.
Pat Williams
#89. All you have to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you will find people who are eager to fill your head with information." WALT DISNEY
Pat Williams
#90. For many of us, our proms were less Walt Disney's 'Cinderella' and more Stephen King's 'Carrie.' The less we spent on them, the better.
Gina Barreca
#91. There are many ways to study Walt Disney, but I think learning about Walt as a leader probably has had the biggest impact on me.
Pat Williams
#92. Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.
John Lasseter
#93. And so Mickey Mouse was born from a tiny brown mouse Walt Disney befriended while at Laugh-O-Gram Studios.
Edwin Woodgate
#94. Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.
Simon Van Booy
#95. Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#97. Walt Disney wasn't making films for kids. Neither were the Muppets. A lot of the great, really cool films, they weren't making them for kids.
Pete Docter
#98. Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.
John Lasseter
#99. If I would use anything from 'The Little Prince,' even some little quote, it's all copyrighted in France. Like Walt Disney in this country, it's a national treasure.
Peter Sis
#100. I look up to Walt Disney and what he has done.
Tyra Banks
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