Mickey Quotes - Page 2

• [Mickey Mouse] He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

  Walt Disney

  Brother, Business, Years

  "A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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• What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

  Joseph Barbera

  Stars, Real, Character

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.

  Karen Carpenter

  People, Would Be, Normal

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

  Walt Disney

  Love, Funny, Witty

  Quoted inWalterWagner, You Must Remember This (1975)

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• Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

  Annette Funicello

  Fame, Claims, Mice

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• I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.

  Robbie Keane

  Player, Joy, Might

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• Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.

  Annette Funicello

  Crush, Children, Clubs

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• Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.

  Annette Funicello

  Sister, Guests, Clubs

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• My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.

  Annette Funicello

  Heart, Soul, Clubs

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• Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.

  Peter Tork

  Routine, Actors, Saws

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• I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.

  Annette Funicello

  Clubs, Mice, Stills

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• Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

  John Hench

  Artist, Names, Example

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• I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Business, Feelings

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• Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.

  John Hench

  Children, Wall, Talking

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• The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him.

  Walt Disney

  Attachment, Should Have, World

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• Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.

  Merv Griffin

  Vegas, Newton, Wayne

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• The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.

  Annette Funicello

  Children, Clubs, Theater

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• Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.

  Harvey Keitel

  Needs, Worthwhile, Certain

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• I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

  Charles Bukowski

  Reality, California, Southern

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

  George Osborne

  Party, Writing, California

  House of Commons, www.publications.parliament.uk. August 11, 2011.

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• Mickey Mouse was supposed to be called Mortimer, but Walt Disney’s wife found it creepy

  Adam Anderson

  Wife, Creepy, Found

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• Never go to Pluto, it's a Mickey Mouse planet.

  Robin Williams

  Pluto, Planets, Mice

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• In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate.

  Mel Allen

  Baseball, Men, Records

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• And that one is gone. A home run for Mickey Mantle! How do you like that?

  Mel Allen

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.

  Amy Welborn

  Prayer, Knees, Praying

  Amy Welborn (2002). “Prove It! Prayer”, p.36, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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