Top 260 Walt Quotes & Sayings

'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.

When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.

I sat up and the blankets fell away.I looked down and found I was wearing pokemon pajamas. "Sadie,"I said,"I'm going to kill you." She batted her eyes innocently."But the street merchant gave us a very good deal on those.Walt said they would fit you." Walt raised his hand."Don't blame me,man.I tried to stick up for you." Bes snorted,then did a pretty good imitation of Walt's voice:"At least get the extra-large ones with Pikachu.

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

If anyone asks you if you’re taken,” I said, “the answer is yes.” “I think I can live with that,” he promised. “Good,” I said. “Because you don’t want to see me be cross.” “Too late.” “Shut up and dance, Walt.” “Shut up and dance, Walt.” We did—with the music of a psychotic griffin screaming behind us, and the sirens and horns of Brooklyn wailing below. It was quite romantic.

I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.

The fascinating thing about the studio was that there was no story department. They would put a little notice up on the bulletin board saying: 'The next Oswald will take place at the North Pole. Anybody having any gags, please turn them in before such a date.' If you turned in gags regularly, the way Tex Avery, Cal Howard, Jack Carr and two or three others of us did, you'd be called into the gag meeting. The group would go into Walt's office and talk about whatever the subject of the cartoon was. Walt would put it into some kind of form and that was the story--no scripts, no storyboards.

The attributes we're focused on for Mickey are exactly the ones Walt had in mind in the first place. The original Mickey was impish and irreverent. Walt sanitized him because when Mickey got so popular, there was a fear that his behavior was influencing kids.

Walt is dead. And, after a couple of hours at Epcot, you'll wish you were, too.

Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.

I look like Walt Disney just threw up.

While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.

We speak with one voice,” Walt said. “Especially on this matter. No one hurts Sadie Kane.

Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.

My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.

One of the reasons for The Walt Disney Company's long- term success is really the first of Dr. Deming's famous points, "create constancy of purpose." In his professional career, Walt's major passion was to provide the finest in family entertainment. For the most part, for nearly a century, the Company has stayed true to that legacy, and has set the standard for the entire entertainment industry.

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

I see Walt Disney as kind of the epitome of a dreamer. He was a very forward thinker.

I learned my first lesson at the Walt Disney Company about not being able to trust my associates.

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.

'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

I caught my second wife screwing my stepdad. OK? It's a cruel world, Walt. Grow up.

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

My grandfather was actually a union organizer at Walt Disney. He was an animator. He used to draw Donald Duck for Walt Disney.

His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today.

I guess we're even,Sadie.First,Walt and I rushed off to save you in London.Then,you and Walt rushed off to save me.The only one who got shafted on both deals was Walt.Poor guy gets hauled all over the world pulling us out of trouble

Walt Shaub is a true ethics hero for speaking out.

For almost 100 years, The Walt Disney Company has had a variety of leaders. Even though it has been hard for some of these leaders to maintain their focus, the Company has been successful in remaining true to Walt's original direction to create the finest in family entertainment.

Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

I'm associated with Walt Disney, but dammit, everybody knows that I'm a bottom feeder.

I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips

Walt Disney was my great hero.

Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults.

Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland.

I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.

I want to be the next Walt Disney, only a little more wicked.

Mickey Mouse was supposed to be called Mortimer, but Walt Disney’s wife found it creepy

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

There are many ways to study Walt Disney, but I think learning about Walt as a leader probably has had the biggest impact on me.

Walt Disney World is tribute to the philosophy and life of Walter Elias Disney... and to the talents, the dedication, and the loyalty of the entire Disney organization that made Walt Disney's dream come true. May Walt Disney World bring Joy and Inspiration and New Knowledge to all who come to this happy place... a Magic Kingdom where the young at heart of all ages can laugh and play and learn -- together.

Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.

I look up to Walt Disney and what he has done.

Walt Disney believed in himself instead of worrying what others were saying.

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

Walt Disney said everything he had ever accomplished was a result of Mickey Mouse. Mickey was Walt's alter ego and he was originally modeled after Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character. So without Chaplin, who knows what Mickey would have become!

Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar.

I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago.

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

There are no more Walt Disneys anymore.

I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!

The death of Walt Disney is a loss to all the people of the world. In everything he did, Walt had an intuitive way of reaching out and touching the hearts and mind of young and old alike. His entertainment was an international language. For more than 40 years, people have looked to Walt Disney for the finest quality in family entertainment. There is no way to replace Walt Disney. He was an extraordinary man. Perhaps there will never be another like him… The world will always be a better place because Walt Disney was its master showman.

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.

Walt gave me a VIP tour of the studio. I remember people doing voices.

What happened in the early days of Disney is that Walt Disney used all of the new technologies as they came out. When matting came out, they adopted it. They adopted sound and color and xerography. Walt did that. And then, when he died, people began to think that this is just about making films, so they stopped bringing in new technologies.

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.