Words matter. These are the best Annette Funicello Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.
Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.
Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.
I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.
Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn’t face the crush of family and social problems children have today.
To some, the ’50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.
I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.
MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.
I’m saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.
In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.
For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.
Animation did not become the dominant form of children’s television until the ’60s.
As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.
The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the ’30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.
Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.
My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.
Mickey Mouse… is always there-he’s part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.
Of all the roles I’ve played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.
I still don’t know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.
I was not prepared to live as a single parent.
