| "Mickey is so popular because he is such a
nice little guy--feisty, but not pushy. He lets other people lose their
tempers" (Roy E. Disney) |
| "Mickey is a "hero"; he represents
all the good things in people" (Charles Solomon, writer) |
| "Mickey mouse is the quintessential symbol of
innocence. Subliminally he represents a lot of things we've lost. He
represents how things used to be simple and fun and free of darkness. If there is a
more poignant symbol, I don't know what it is" (Bob Greene, newspaper columnist) |
| "Disney brought something nice and clean to
the kids. You would never see Mickey mouse with a machine gun, killing people"
(Ernest Borgnine) |
| "Practically everyone loved Mickey..."the
children who thought he was funny, the philosophers who thought he represented America's
raucous individualism, the esthetes who saw in him the first successful adjustment of
linear design to the fluttering motion of the films"..." (Life Magazine) |
| "Mickey is a little fellow trying to do the
best he could" (Walt Disney) |