Mickey Quotes

• Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.

  Walt Disney

  Laughter, Personality, Purpose

  "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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• When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.

  Walt Disney

  Kansas, Vegetarian, Vegan

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• I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.

  Keanu Reeves

  Suits, Mice, Knows

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

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• Walt Disney said everything he had ever accomplished was a result of Mickey Mouse. Mickey was Walt's alter ego and he was originally modeled after Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character. So without Chaplin, who knows what Mickey would have become!

  Bill Capodagli

  Character, Ego, Littles

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• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  Walt Disney

  People, Laughing, Secret

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• On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.

  Nellie Fox

  Two, Legs, Has Beens

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• Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

  Walt Disney

  Mean, Independence, Minnie Mouse

  "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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• The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.

  Walt Disney

  Venture, Mice, Personal And Professional Life

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• I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

  Norah Jones

  Clubs, Jazz, Restaurants

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• I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

  Kathryn Hahn

  Kids, Animal, Two

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• If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Running, Home, Guy

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• What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

  Harvey Keitel

  Years, Literature, Helping

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• The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Way, Treated

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• I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Emblems, Funniness

  "Bonus Material From Our Exclusive 'Where The Wild Things Are' Roundtable". Interview With Ramin Setoodeh, www.newsweek.com. October 9, 2009.

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• The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff.

  James Ellroy

  Doors, People, Waiting

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• Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!

  Robin Williams

  Years, Feet, Three

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• Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

  Maurice Sendak

  Movie, Children, Two

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• In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

  Jacki Weaver

  Growing Up, Son, Australia

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

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• I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

  Matt Groening

  Small Villages, Littles, Bali

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• When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.

  Mark Hamill

  Book, Thinking, America

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• Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.

  Jermaine Jackson

  Children, Joy, Connections

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• Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Mean, Ducks, Drawing

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• 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

  Age Difference, Differences, Clubs

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• Every election, Mickey Mouse looks better and better as President.

  Duncan Long

  President, Looks, Election

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• I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

  Stan Getz

  Band, Jazz, Kind

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