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American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)

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Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (5 December 1901 – 15 December 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator. One of the most well-known motion picture producers in the world, Disney was also the artist responsible for works in a variety of other media, the creator of Disneyland and Walt Disney World, and the founder of The Walt Disney Company, the world's largest entertainment and media organization, Walt Disney characters including Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Mary Poppins, Pinocchio and many others.

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Pen Names: Disney, Walter Elias

Birth Name: Walter Elias Disney

Alternative Names: Walter Disney • Walter E. Disney • W. E. Disney • W.E. Disney • WE Disney • W. Disney • Walt E. Disney • Disney

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Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. He 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. Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.

We're not trying to entertain the critics … I'll take my chances with the public.

You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!

I believe in being an innovator.

Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

Remember you're the one who can fill the world with sunshine

Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.

Tía Pepa sees Mirabel, clouds form overhead.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Water under the bridge!

Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either. °o°

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Everyone needs deadlines. Even the beavers. They loaf around all summer, but when they are faced with the winter deadline, they work like fury. If we didn’t have deadlines, we’d stagnate.