Walt Disney Quotes

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Walt Disney

Profession : Businessman

Birth : December 5, 1901

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

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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.

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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

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Disneyland is a show.

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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 in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

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Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

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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 sort of little puppet things.

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I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

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I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

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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 to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

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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.

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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 unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

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