Nobody could pile on the applesauce like Mickey. He was the best liar in the world – well, Frank Sinatra can tell a good story, too, but I don’t believe he was ever unfaithful to me.
Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.
If you go to talk to Disney about anything related to Mickey Mouse, if you can even get the meeting, you’re going to get 50 people in that room. That is the crown jewel of their brand, and so they protect it. And so for better or worse, the crown jewel of my legacy still remains Steve Urkel and Stefan Urquelle.
Mickey Mouse did not stay the little squeaky guy in ‘Steamboat Willie.’ He went on to have many different versions.
Shamu the killer whale is Sea World’s Mickey Mouse; whales named Shamu are the star attractions of three parks and the focus of their marketing efforts.
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.
Scooby’s the greatest cartoon character ever. He isn’t cute like Mickey or smart like Bugs or fearless like Woody and Buzz – he’s a talking dog who’s more human than I am. It’s his humanity and imperfections that make him special.
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.’
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.
I’ve heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.
I watching this Disney documentary, and I’m not Disney, but I was thinking about Mickey Mouse and he became an icon. Walt moved onto other things but he made him exist. I was thinking, ‘Wow, is ‘Samurai Jack’ my ‘Mickey Mouse?’ Am I stupid to stop working on it?’
Now and again, an actor will blow my mind by doing something really unexpected, like Mickey Rourke or Christopher Walken – you have absolutely no idea what they’re going to do, which is really thrilling to watch.
That was real baseball. We weren’t playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.
What I’ve realized recently is that the difference between me and Mickey Mouse is, there’s not a man that can go and say, ‘Look, can you get me in any faster? I’m Mickey Mouse.’ Whereas I can go in and say, ‘Look, could you get me a table faster? I’m Princess Leia.’
The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We’re just… normal people.
I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, ‘Hey, he’s Mickey Andrews.’
Mickey Mouse… is always there-he’s part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.
I’d vote for Mickey Mouse before I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin.
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.
Mickey’ is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a one-hit wonder.
My father was Mickey Katz, who worked with Spike Jones and then went on to improvise some successful Yiddish parodies, some of which I perform. My favorite was ‘Geshray of the Vilde Kotchke,’ his version of ‘Cry of the Wild Goose.’
I loved working with Mickey Rourke. He’s a wonderful kind of crazy.
I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don’t have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I’d go pick cotton to have enough money, and I’d buy all of these packs, and I’d chew all of the gum, and I’d never find a Mickey Mantle card.
Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.
People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.
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 to me means safety, comfort and tradition. A general wash of happiness.
As far as the timing, well, I’d write that off to luck as much as anything – I happened to be out looking for a development deal, and Disney happened to think my team and I might be the right people to make a Mickey Mouse game.
There’s this bubblegum pop thing which is prevalent now that we haven’t had before. People’s ears are slightly de-tuned; they’ve been exposed to this weird synthetic, implausibly upbeat, Mickey Mouse stuff which I think is just weird; it’s not really a human sound.
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