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Born
December 5, 1901 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died
December 15, 1966 · Los Angeles, California, USA (complications from lung cancer)

Birth name
Walter Elias Disney

Spouse
Lillian Disney (July 13, 1925 – December 15, 1966) (his death, 2 children)

QUOTES:

[quoted in the book “The Humour of Sex” by Robert Hale] I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I’ve ever known.

[on the Order of DeMolay, a Masonic youth organization] I feel a great sense of obligation and gratitude toward the Order of DeMolay for the important part it played in my life. Its precepts have been invaluable in making decisions, facing dilemmas and crises. DeMolay stands for all that is good for the family and for our country. I feel privileged to have enjoyed membership in DeMolay.

People like to think their world is somehow more grown up than Papa’s was.

I sell corn, and I love corn.

You know, every once in a while I just fire everybody, then I hire them back in a couple of weeks. That way they don’t get too complacent. It keeps them on their toes.

[to director Richard Fleischer, who made 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) for Disney, on how to be successful] Well, then, why don’t you do as I do? Let somebody else do all the work and you take all the credit.

Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

The proper comedy for the screen is visual. Films try to get too many laughs out of the dialogue. We use pantomime not wisecracks. Portrayal of human sensations by inanimate objects such as steam shovels and rocking-chairs never fail to provoke laughter. Human distress exemplified by animals is sure-fire. A bird that jumps after swallowing a grasshopper is a natural. Surprise is always provocative.

Every time they make a pornographic film, I make money.