Quotes & Sayings About Mickey Mouse By Walt Disney

As a young cartoonist, Walt Disney faced many rejections from newspaper editors who said he had no talent. One day a minister at a church hired him to draw some cartoons. Disney was working out of a small rodent-infested shed near the church. Seeing a small mouse inspired him to draw a new cartoon. That was the start of Mickey Mouse. — Shiv Khera

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

Mickey Mouse was supposed to be called Mortimer, but Walt Disney's wife found it creepy — Adam Anderson

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity. — Walt Disney

And so Mickey Mouse was born from a tiny brown mouse Walt Disney befriended while at Laugh-O-Gram Studios. — Edwin Woodgate

I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me. — John Lasseter

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

Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun. — Walt Disney Company

Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse ... by Floyd Gottfredson will be warmly received by comics aficionados but should also intrigue Disney animation buffs who aren't necessarily plugged into comic strip history ... I have a feeling that this book, crafted with such obvious care, will earn Gottfredson a new legion of admirers. — Leonard Maltin

I was stumped one day when a little boy asked, 'Do you draw Mickey Mouse?' And I had to admit I do not draw anymore. 'Then you think up all the jokes and ideas?' 'No,' I said, 'I don't do that.' Finally, he looked at me and said, 'Mr. Disney, just what do you do?' 'Well,' I said, 'sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another, and I gather pollen. I sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that's the job I do.'" WALT DISNEY — Pat Williams

Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock. — Frans De Waal

Girls bored me - they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known — Walt Disney Company

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. — Walt Disney

I'm finding that everything sells. I've been toying with the fact that I have this big giant glass jar with the metal screw lid on it that's full of ribbons and memorabilia from conventions and stuff. I've got buttons and I have all of my Walt Disney Mickey Mouse credit cards. I'm wondering in my old age if anyone would pay for a credit card with Mickey Mouse on it issued to me. I wonder if anyone would pay anything for that? — Mike Royer

When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born. — Walt Disney

Walt famously said that it-- "it" being being the Disney empire--all started with a mouse, but the mouse was created because the rabbit was purloined. — Leslie Le Mon

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

Mickey represented an honest product, a pure spirit and a cheerful heart, a sort of staggeringly simple pleasure in the exercise of the imagination. — Eve Zibart