Mickey Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

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

When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'

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.

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

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

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.

When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity.

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

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.

Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good.

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

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.

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

Mickey Mouse 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.

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.

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

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

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

I'm probably a bit of a cheeky grandson, like my brother as well. We both take the mickey a bit too much.

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.

Mickey Rourke was the Brad Renfro of the '80s.

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

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