Walt Disney Quotes Fame and Fortune , Family and Fun

Fame and Fortune

“Being a celebrity doesn’t even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won’t give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can’t be much in being a celebrity after all.”

“Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!”

“I have no use for people who throw there weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.”

“If anybody gets highbrow around the studio—out he goes.”

“Money—or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas—may worry me, but it does not excite me.”

“My biggest problem? Well, I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem.”

“You reach a point where you don’t work for money.”

“You’ll be a poorer person all your life if you don’t know some of the great stories and great poems.”

Family

“A man should never neglect his family for business.”

“The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together — and that’s the backbone of our whole business, catering to families — that’s what we hope to do.”

“We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.”

Fun

“For every laugh, there should be a tear.”

“I have a great love of animals and laughter.”

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

“If I can’t find a theme, I can’t make a film anyone else will feel. I can’t laugh at intellectual humor. I’m just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart…”

“In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.”

“My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.”

“The fun is in always building something. After it’s built, you play with it awhile and then you’re through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We’re always opening up new doors.”

“We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. … All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.”

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