Quote

Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.

Annette Funicello

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Annette Funicello
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Singer
Television Actor
Utica
New York
Annette Joanne Funicello
Social
Club
Didn
Clubs
Originals
Problem
Original
Mickey
Today
Problems
Mouse
Children
Face
Mice
Faces
Viewers
Family
Crush

More quotes by Annette Funicello

Image
To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.
Annette Funicello
Image
You don't have to pound your head after hearing a country song and wonder if you missed something.
Annette Funicello
Image
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
Annette Funicello
Image
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
Annette Funicello
Image
Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.
Annette Funicello
Image
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
Image
At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.
Annette Funicello
Image
When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.
Annette Funicello
Image
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
Annette Funicello
Image
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
Image
Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.
Annette Funicello
Image
MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.
Annette Funicello
Image
I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart
Annette Funicello
Image
Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film
Annette Funicello
Image
The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down.
Annette Funicello
Image
Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.
Annette Funicello
Image
For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.
Annette Funicello
Image
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
Image
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
Image
My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.
Annette Funicello