Joseph Barbera Quotes

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

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

I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago.

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.

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.

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.

Ariel got me into animation. She was the first Disney heroine that really felt alive. She felt like a real young woman.

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?'

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

Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.

Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.

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

'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'

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 have a paper, pencil, and ink sketch for a Mickey Mouse cartoon short entitled 'Mickey's Garden' from 1935.

Wayne was my hero. He really loved doing Mickey Mouse and was very proud that he did it 32 years.

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

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

I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you don't see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see 'Bambi' alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Walt Disney was my great hero.

I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.