If Watching Is All You're Going To

I Try To Build A Full Personality For Each Of Our Cartoon Characters - To Make Them Personalities.

We Felt That The Public, And Especially The Children, Like Animals That Are Cute And Little. I Think We Are Rather Indebted To Charlie Chaplin For The Idea. We Wanted Something Appealing, And We Thought Of A Tiny Bit Of A Mouse That Would Have Something Of The Wistfulness Of Chaplin - A Little Fellow Trying To Do The Best He Could.

We Love To Entertain Kings And Queens, But At Disneyland, Everyone Is A V.i.p.

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.

People Look At You And Me To See What They Are Supposed To Be. And, If We Don't Disappoint Them, Maybe, Just Maybe, They Won't Disappoint Us.