Here Are 8 Walt Disney Quotes About Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse is one of the most well-known cartoon characters of all time. He is the man who helped Walt Disney build Walt Disney Studios, Disneyland, and the world's three largest theme parks. Mickey Mouse has also been a friend to generations upon generations of kids and adults.
The name "Mickey" was suggested by Walt Disney's wife, Lillian, in response to Walt's original name, "Mortimer Mouse", during a train ride in 1928. Mickey Mouse symbolizes all of the ideas that Walt Disney wished to convey, including joy, pleasure, dreams, and the power to connect families.
Walt Disney frequently spoke about the importance of Mickey Mouse and how he had an impact on both his personal life and his business. We have gathered his eight most memorable quotes about Mickey Mouse. You can discover a lot about Walt Disney's passions and beliefs by carefully reading through these quotes. You might be surprised by some of the quotes.
1.“The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.” – Walt Disney

2. “Mickey Mouse is to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. He popped out of Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when the business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at the lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. Born of necessity, the little fellow freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for extending our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation to new Entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.” – Walt Disney

3. “All we ever intended for him or expected of him was that he should continue to make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him. We didn’t burden him with any social symbolism, we made him no mouthpiece for frustrations or harsh satire. Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.” – Walt Disney

4. “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 their lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.” – Walt Disney

5. “It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him.” – Walt Disney

6. “I often find myself surprised at what has been said about our redoubtable little Mickey, who was never really a mouse not yet wholly a man – although always recognizably human.
Psycho-analysts have probed him. Wise men have pondered him. Columnists have kidded him. Admirers have saluted him. The League of Nations gave him a special medal as a symbol of international goodwill. Hitler was infuriated by him and thunderingly forbade his people to wear the then popular Mickey Mouse lapel button in place of the Swastika.
But all we ever intended for him was that he should make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him. ” -Walt Disney

7. “All we ever intended for him or expected of him was that he should continue to make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him. We didn’t burden him with any social symbolism, we made him no mouthpiece for frustrations or harsh satire. Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.” – Walt Disney

8.“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 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.” – Walt Disney