Walter Lantz quotes

“I'm just a little old cartoonist, tryin' to make a buck.”
-- Walter Lantz

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“I never tried to make a cartoon for a certain age bracket. I just tried to make entertaining pictures. That's why they still play and why they play so well in foreign countries.”
-- Walter Lantz

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“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.”
-- Walter Lantz

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“I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.”

“I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.”

Source : "ON THE COVER: Aynsley Dunbar". Interview wth Rick Mattingly, www.moderndrummer.com. May 1982.

“Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.'”

“If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I wouldn't have done Playboy.”

“No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable.”

“Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.”

“I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.”

“Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.”

“I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,”

Source : Song: Country Boy, Album: Town Line, 2011

“Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden Until Della walked into my life I didn’t understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But I’d seen it once -Woods”