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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 3

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

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I believe in being a modivator.

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Disneyland is a show.

Disneyland

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The wonders of nature are endless...

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Everyone needs deadlines.

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I believe in being an innovator.

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Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.

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Ideas come from curiosity.

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The worst of us is not without innocence,although buried deeply it might be.

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Heigh ho, heigh ho! / It's off to work we go.

Cartoons

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Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things

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Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.

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I believe that laughter is our greatest export

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People spend money when and where they feel good.

Advertising

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Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.

Family

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It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion

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Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies…

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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…

Biggest problem

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Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America.

America

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I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

America

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The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest…

Confidence

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I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.

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To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.

Chance

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The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.

Bounds

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I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there…

Adults

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It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested…

Chance

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Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless…

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I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on…

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What ever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it, they will want to…

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She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she…

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What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination…

Animation

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Biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make…

Biggest problem

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

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Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach…

Adults

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Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground,…

Beauty

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Who says we have to grow up?

Adolescence

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If it can be dreamed, it can be done.

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If you can dream it, do it.

Disney

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Fantasy and reality often overlap.

Dream

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The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.

Confidence

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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)