Walt Disney Characters Quotes & Sayings

I loved The Wind in the Willows ... Walt Disney should be sued for cheapening it as he did. Imagine it, Mickey Mousing all those nice characters. I'm surprised he didn't do it with the New Testament. — Tasha Tudor

It's the interaction between those characters that really makes that movie as special as it is, and I'm proud to say, as you probably know, it was the highest grossing film of 2012, it's the highest grossing film that Walt Disney has ever put out, and it's the third highest grossing film ever, in the world. — Jeph Loeb

The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel every expression, every reaction. He get far enough from his story to take a second look at it ... to see whether there is any dead phase ... to see whether the personalities are going to be interesting and appealing to the audience. He should also try to see that the things that his characters are doing are of an interesting nature. — Walt Disney

Fantasyland was designed as a home for some of the classic characters [from those films], and as a symbol of the magic, hope and beauty of the human imagination. — Leslie Le Mon

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities. — Walt Disney

I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions. — Walt Disney

It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy. — Walt Disney

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us. — Walt Disney Company

I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles. — Walt Disney

In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action ... the feeling of those characters. — Walt Disney

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. — Walt Disney

All films created by Walt Disney at the time of his major outpouring of work were carefully crafted to fit scenes, characters, moods and situations. If these elements changed in any way, songs - no matter how good they were - were discarded. Others were written for the new scenes. Many times, character songs were dropped because characters were dropped ... sequences were dropped etc. — Richard Sherman

The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it, so that the power of their imagination keeps them suspended in mid-air; but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall. — Raoul Vaneigem

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining. — John Lasseter