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
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.
In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.
Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.