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Portrait of Walt Disney

Walt Disney

(1901–1966) Producer United States

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Walt Disney was a producer from the United States, best known for Alice in Wonderland.

Quick Facts About Walt Disney

Born: December 5, 1901
Died: December 15, 1966
Nationality: United States
Profession: Producer
Notable works: Alice in Wonderland
Known for: Mickey Mouse
Spouse: Lillian Disney

About Walt Disney

He holds the individual record for most Academy Awards won (22) and nominations (59). Disney received two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy. Several of his films are preserved in the National Film Registry and have been cited among the best by the American Film Institute.

Awards & Honors

Presidential Medal of Freedom Order of the Southern Cross Order of the Aztec Eagle Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film Golden Bear Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film National Inventors Hall of Fame

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Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) Order of the Crown of Thailand Special Achievement Academy Award American Choreography Awards California Hall of Fame Grammy Trustees Award Winsor McCay Award Knight of the Legion of Honour Congressional Gold Medal Honorary César Academy Honorary Award Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria Progress Medal (SMPTE) Primetime Emmy Award for Best Producer for a Film Series Audubon Medal

Quotes by Walt Disney · Page 10

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making…

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Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

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Of all the things I have done, the most vital is coordinating the talents of those who work for us and pointing…

Coordinating

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I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.

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I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Competition

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Everything that matters to we can work out as expected, in the event that we have the strength to seek after them.

Events

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I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control,…

Being yourself

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“I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park. I want them to feel…

Another world

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At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks...…

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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when…

Adversity

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The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we…

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Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the…

America

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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's…

Anatomy

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The most exciting and, by far, the most important part of our Florida project, in fact, the heart of everything well be…

Community

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To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength…

Age

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[Mickey Mouse] He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to…

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I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used…

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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is…

Autograph

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It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.

Children

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While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy…

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We keep on moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things because we are curious and curiosity keeps leading us down…

Curiosity

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Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind…

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I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it.

Benefit

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I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't…

Animation

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Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the…

Adventure

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A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With…

Accomplishment

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No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the…

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We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to…

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When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so…

Amusement

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The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business,…

Backbone

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Speaking for the one field which I feel definitely qualified to comment on, I fully believe the animated picture will emerge as…

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“There is more treasure n books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish…

Books

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Walt Disney by topic

Inspirational (77) Life (57) Dream (52) Disneyland (41) Dreams (39) People (38) Love (37) Children (34) World (29) Thinking (26) Business (26) Imagination (22) Success (19) Ideas (19) Fun (17) Time (16)