Quotes About Walt

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

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

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

Albert made of solid alligator—he heavy.

And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.

He [President Abraham Lincoln] has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes beautiful, with its strange mouth, its deep-cut, criss-cross lines, and its doughnut complexion.

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.

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.

Animation had been a thriving medium when Walt came along, but was dismissed as amateur entertainment for children. Common were bland, forgettable, poorly drawn characters going through nonsensical antics. Walt himself could barely draw a decent Mickey Mouse.

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

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.

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

Look at the films of Walt Disney: 'Snow White' came out in February 1938, and I can't think of another film from that year that's watched as much. The same is true of 'Bambi,' 'Dumbo'... even, frankly, 'Toy Story,' which is probably watched more than any other movie of 1995.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

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.

How do I defeat Apophis?" "I'm so glad you asked!" Thoth beamed at me with his multicolored eyes. "Unfortunately, I can't tell you." I glanced at Walt. "Do you want to kill him, or should I?

Stop smiling!" she ordered. "I can see you, Carter. Oh…and, uh, hullo, Walt." The pot monster made squeaky grinding noises as it stood up straight. One clunky arm rose and tried to fix Sadie's nonexistent hair. Leave it to Sadie to be self-conscious around boys, even when she's made out of pots and duct tape.

I felt a strange pang of jealousy. Walt and Anubis seemed to have spent more time talking with each other than with me. Walt was suddenly an expert on all things deathly. Meanwhile, I couldn't even be near Anubis without invoking the wrath of his chaperone—Shu, the god of hot air. It wasn't bloody fair!

Walt's face lit up. Sadie, Ptah was more than the craftsman god, right? Didn't they call him the God of Opening? Um...Possibly. I thought you taught us that. Or maybe it was Carter. Boring bit of information? Probably Carter.

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

The ranks included a carpenter and furniture-maker named Elias Disney, who in coming years would tell many stories about the construction of this magical realm beside the lake. His son Walt would take note.

We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.

Animation translates well to a small screen. When you look at Walt Disney or Chuck Jones - you know, Bugs Bunny - there really isn't any difference if you watch on a very big screen or a computer screen.