Paul Winchell Quotes

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.

I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!

I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.

Walt Disney grew up in Marceline, but almost every child has grown up with his beloved characters.

Walt Disney was my great hero.

I'm a huge Disney fan.

I have always really liked creating family entertainment, and Disney does that really well.

I'd love to have done 'John Carter.' I'd love to work for the Disney Corporation.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

Walt gave me a VIP tour of the studio. I remember people doing voices.

There was a guy that I got to know pretty well - Joe Grant. He was one of the creators of Dumbo and worked side-by-side with Disney. Being a total Disney nerd, I was obsessed with asking him questions. He was 92 when I got to know him.

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.

The attributes we're focused on for Mickey are exactly the ones Walt had in mind in the first place. The original Mickey was impish and irreverent. Walt sanitized him because when Mickey got so popular, there was a fear that his behavior was influencing kids.

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?'

I probably know everything there is to know about Disney.

Mickey Mouse did not stay the little squeaky guy in 'Steamboat Willie.' He went on to have many different versions.

I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.

Disneyland is such a big thing to Californians, I discovered that when you cross the border you have to raise your right hand and take an oath that you believe in Walt Disney.

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

'Snow White' was really hip for its time. Walt Disney was basically using Sigmund Romberg and operetta in the telling of the story, and through animation - that was revolutionary.

I can speak to my experience and say that CalArts worked out very well for me. After CalArts, I went to Cartoon Network, and then came to Disney.

Disney did well with human characters but only in dramas, not comedy.

I would love to act in a film if it is based on my life. But then it all depends on who is making it and how much time it would require for me to shoot.

'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.

I kind of thought I would only work exclusively in the world of naturalistic comedy drama, but there is this side of me that also loves Hollywood, and I wanted to see what that felt like.