Annette Funicello Quotes

"I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Heart, Disney)

"I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Caring, Disney, Man)

"I was not prepared to live as a single parent."
- Annette Funicello

"I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Mouse)

"I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Father, Thought, Disney)

"I always considered myself a dancer before anything else."
- Annette Funicello

"In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Men, Women, states, United)

"For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Disability)

"Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Learning)

"At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: American, Beginning)

"As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Travel, Hope, Comfort, Country)

"As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Family, Career, Hardship, Trouble)

"Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Animation, Children, Television)

"Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Growing up, Public)

"The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Life)

"When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Change, Life)

"Whatever dreams I have wished have come true."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Dreams)

"Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Ambition, Career, Tenacity)

"Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Experience, Listening, Television, Today, Years)

"To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable."
- Annette Funicello

"Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Impression, Being, Disney, Now)

"In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Birthday, Fame, Hollywood, Present)

"The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Thought, Failure, Divorce)

"Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Guests, Mouse, Sisters)

"Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Mother, Being)

"My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Soul, Heart, Friend, Mouse)

"MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Illness)

"Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Deep, Disney)

"Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Life, Disney, Film, Scouting)

"Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Family, Children, Mouse, Problems, Today)

"Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Life, Fame, Mouse)

"The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Children, Mouse)