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You know, Walt Disney was a genius. He had an idea for a mouse and made him the most famous character in animation! But it wasn’t always easy. In fact, Walt said of Mickey Mouse: “We’re going to make this little guy into something really special.” So we had to find some of his best quotes about life – and they’re not all from the movies!
Mickey is a cartoon mouse created in 1928. He was originally known as Mortimer but later changed his name to Mickey. Today, he is the “face” of Disney and the most popular of all the characters.
As Mickey Mouse is so popular he has so many quotes here are just a few.
- “Oh boy!” – Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
- “Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog !” – Mickey Mouse
- “Miska Mouska Mickey Mouse.” – Mickey Mouse
- “Mickey Mouse is to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. 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 the business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at the lowest ebb, and disaster seemed right around the corner.” – Walt Disney
- “The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.” – Walt Disney
- “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
- “Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation towards new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.” – Walt Disney
- “We didn’t burden him with any social symbolism, we made him no mouthpiece for frustrations or harsh satire. Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.” – Walt Disney
- “When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.” – Walt Disney
- “The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We’re just… normal people.” – Karen Carpenter
- “I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness” – Maurice Sendak
- “Mickey represented an honest product, a pure spirit and a cheerful heart, a sort of staggeringly simple pleasure in the exercise of the imagination.” – Eve Zibart
- Mickey Mouse: “Do little old ladies have big, furry arms?” Others: “No.”
- “Me and my big beak.” – Donald Duck
- “My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.” – Annette Funicello
- “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
- “What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried Gary hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.” – Joseph Barbera
- “We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a Mouse that would have something to the wistfulness of Chaplin – a little fellow trying to do the best he could.” – Walt Disney
- “Aren’t you sweet?” – Minnie Mouse
- “Mickey was supposed to be called Mortimer, but Walt Disney’s wife found it creepy.” – Adam Anderson
- “Las vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.” – Merv griffin
- “The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the ‘30s, was designed to attract children to movie theatres.” – Annette Funicello
- “I played in rhumba bands, Mickey Mouse bands; all kinds of bands.” – Stan Getz
- “I wasn’t a trained Mickey Mouse Club performer. I played in Jazz Clubs and restaurant.” – Norah Jones
- “When you say ‘comic book’ in America, people think of Mickey Mouse and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.” – Mark Hamill
- ”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
- ”When I was poor living in a garage on Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born. – Walt Disney
- “When I was on the ‘Mickey Mouse club’ there was Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Ryan Gosling, and Christine Aguilera. But they were 12 and I was 17, so there was a bit of an age difference.” – Keri Russell
- “All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn’t. They had big ears on them.” – Gerald Scarfe
- “That was real baseball. We weren’t playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backward.” – Bill Lee
I hope you like the quotes that I have shared with you? For more fun quotes from some of our favourite characters you can find Ariel here and Mary Poppins here!
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