Walt Disney Quotes about Character

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Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.

Walt Disney

Character, Interesting, People

"Seven Minutes : The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon". Book by Norman M. Klein, 1998.

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

Walt Disney

Character, Personality, Cartoon

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

Character, Greatness, Animal

Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.134, Univ. Press of Mississippi

In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.

Walt Disney

Life, Attitude, Character

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.

Walt Disney

Character, Personality

"Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon". Book by Norman M. Klein, 1993.

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

Walt Disney

Life, Character, Exaggeration Is

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

Character, Feelings, Action

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

Character, Men, Expression

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

Character, Depth, World

"How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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

Character, Giving, Imagination