Walter Mitty Quotes:

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

- Jonathan Winters

topic: Kids, Fighting, Doctors, Walter Mitty

I had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.

- Tom Hardy

source: "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

topic: Character, Imagination, Bits, Walter Mitty

I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.

- James Caan

topic: Cowboy, Cells, People, Walter Mitty, Brain Cells

I saw Ben Stiller's movie Walter Mitty [2013]; it's very beautiful. You look at some of the movies John Ford did with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, and then look at Remington and Ansel Adams, and I think you see a connection, certainly in the imagery of the West.

- Owen Wilson

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Beautiful, Thinking, Connections, Jimmy Stewart, Remington

Index investing is an investment strategy that Walter Mitty would love. It takes very little investment knowledge, no skill, practically no time or effort-and outperforms about 80 percent of all investors.

- Michael LeBoeuf

topic: Skills, Effort, Investing, Walter Mitty