Walt Quotes

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.

Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

Walt Disney was my great hero.

Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago.

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.