A man should never neglect his family for business.
Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
Disneyland is a show.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
I believe in being an innovator.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
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.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing... and adding to.
Laughter is America's most important export.
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.
People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.
You can't just let nature run wild.
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo.
Walt had 3 older brothers, Herbert, Raymond, Roy, and 1 younger sister named Ruth.
When Walt was 14 years old, he attended the Kansas City Art Institute on Saturday mornings. This is where he learned a lot of the basic drawing ideas.
At a time, Donald Duck was banned from a scandanavian country because he never wore pants.
Many have wondered about the symbol on Walt Disney's tie shown during the Rocket Rods queue narration. It also appears on the bronze statue of Disney in the center of Disneyland. It looks like an Asian language character, but I recently found out that it is actually a compound of the letters S T R, which apparently stands for Disney's "Smoke Tree Ranch."
How far apart are the trash cans? Walt Disney ate a hot dog in Disneyland and counted how many steps it took to finish it. It took him about 25 steps, which is roughly the spacing used in every Disney park today.
In 1945 Walt Disney designed the insignia for Fighter Squadron VF-84 while the squad was getting ready for the attack on Japan.
"Disney" is actually a changed version of Walt's family's original name. The original name was D'Isigny. It was around the year 1044. Originally from France, Isigny-Sur-Mer was the area that Walt's relatives came from.
Walt's death at 9:35 A.M., was attributed to acute circulatory collapse.
In 1923, in California, Walt and Roy formed the Disney Brothers Studio. At Roy's insistence, the company soon became the Walt Disney Studio, since he felt that Walt's name should be emphasized. This is officially recognized as the starting date of The Walt Disney Company.
Walt Disney is the only person to ever win an oscar and a nobel prize.
Walt Disney's mother died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a defective heating system in a brand new house that Walt and his brother Roy had bought for his parents in Los Angeles.
Walt Disney was responsible for the first nature documentary and was one of the prime movers of the conservation movement—the first being Bambi and the next being the studio's "True-Life Adventures."
He won more Oscars than anyone else -- 32.
He grew his famous mustache at age 25.
One of Walt's first jobs was a paperboy. He hated it because he was forced to do it.
When Walt Disney World opened in 1971, about 5 years after Walt's death, its original name was just Disney World. Roy Disney, Walt's brother, gave the opening speech for the park. In it is where he dedicated the park's name to his brother, naming the park Walt Disney World, in his brother's honor.
One of Walt's first businesses was Laugh-O-Grams, whick he started with Ub Iwerks. They were originally going to call the company Disney & Iwerks, but they thought it sounded too much like an optomirtrists' office.
Walt Disney loved trains so much that when he moved to California and had enough room in his backyard, he got an life sized train in his backyard that he was able to ride. The tracks' length was about 1 mile. The trian was named after his wife, The Lillian.
Walt Disney came up with the name of EPCOT, in Walt Disney World, Florida. EPCOT stands for Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow. Walt was very excited of this park because of its limitless potential. Walt died before its completion, making the park different from the original plans. To see Walt's original plans for EPCOT, go to the Magic Kingdom in Florida and go on the ride:Blueline Transport. In it, you see a miniture city behind a wall of glass. This is the original model of EPCOT, that was taken from Walt's EPCOT planning room.
When Walt was building Disneyland in California, it was tough for him to go back and forth from his house at times. So, he and his family sometimes stayed in an apartment above the firehouse in Disneyland. When Walt died, it has been untouched since.
Walt: You reach a point where you don't work for money.
Walt: You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt: When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Walt: When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
Walt: We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
Walt: We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
Walt: We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
Walt: There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
Walt: The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt: People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
Walt: Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt: Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Walt: Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
Walt is the brother of Herbert Disney, Roy O. Disney, Ruth Disney.
Walt is the grandfather of Chris Miller, Joanna Miller, Tamara Scheer, Jennifer Miller-Goff, Walter Elias Disney Miller, Ronald Miller, and Victoria Brown.
Walt: Laughter is America's most important export.
Walt: It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
Walt: If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
Walt: I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt: I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
Walt: I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Walt: I have no use for people who throw there weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
Walt: I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.
Walt: I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt: I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
Walt: I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Walt: Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
Walt: Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
Walt: Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
Walt: Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Walt: Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Walt: All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt: Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.
Walt was awarded an honorary Oscar "For the creation of Mickey Mouse" by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences at the fifth Awards ceremony held on November 10, 1932 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. It was only the second honorary Oscar yet awarded by the Academy. The recipient of the first honorary Oscar, Charles Chaplin, was supposed to present the award to Disney, but he stayed home the night of the awards.
Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, an Army draft notice, addressed to "Mr. Donald Duck", was delivered to the Disney studios.
Walt's death was not publicly announced until after his funeral, which was attended only by close family members.
Walt was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2000.
Walt holds the record of winning the most Academy Awards (32).
Walt is the father-in-law of Ron Miller (married to his daughter Diane Disney)
Walt's spouse, Lillian, died on December 16, 1997.
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