Tia Carrere 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 can't actually believe how good 'The Sopranos' is. I genuinely am dumbfounded by it. It's like when you realize how good The Beatles are, and you think, 'How did they do that?'

Mickey Mouse to me means safety, comfort and tradition. A general wash of happiness.

I think the thing that strikes you when you come back to 'The Little Mermaid' after all of these years is the simplicity and innocence. That's in the look of it, and that's in the sound of it.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.

To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.

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

'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then.

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

That's always at the heart and soul of Disney's features, the feeling of a family values.

I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

Working for Disney for the last eight and a half years, people come and go - production staff and actors. I stepped onto the sound stage and it was a literal time warp.

I always remember smelling Chanel No. 5 at home - my mum used to literally pour it, and she rocked it.

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away.

I'm not one of these Disney haters. I'm really appreciative of the foundation it laid for me.

The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.

Anything Drake drops is timeless. It's always timeless, it's always lit.

Anybody in animation today would be lying if they said they weren't somehow influenced by 'The Simpsons' to a certain degree. Except for the shows that go out of their way to look as far from 'The Simpsons' as possible.

When we were kids, I know when I saw 'Pinocchio' it had a huge impact. I was ten years old, and I went home, and I was drawing the characters.

There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.

I saw 'Beauty and the Beast' at eight years old in theatres and spent hours trying to recreate the majestic imagery of that story in a drawing notepad at home.