Walt Disney
Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disneywas an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer he received 22 Academy Awards from 59 nominations and has won more individual Oscars than anyone else. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and one Emmy Award, among other honors. Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth5 December 1901
CityChicago, IL
Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.
When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.
The magic is as wide as a smile and as narrow as a wink, loud as laughter and quiet as a tear, tall as a tale and deep as emotion. So strong, it can lift the spirit. So gentle, it can touch the heart. It is the magic that begins the happily ever after.
Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.
Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgment, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.
I never intended to make art.
Suddenly he stops. He looks up. For, lo, there she stands. The girl of his dreams. Who she is or whence she came, he knows not, nor does he care for his heart tells him that here, here is the maid predestined to be his bride.
Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
You reach a point where you don't work for money.