27 Quotes by Annette Funicello
- Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.
- I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart.
- I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.
- I was not prepared to live as a single parent.
- I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.
- I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.
- I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.
- 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.
- For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.
- Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.
- At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.
- As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.
- As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.
- Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.
- Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.
- 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.
- To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.
- Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting.
- In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
- The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
- Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.
- Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.
- My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.
- MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.
- Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.
- Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.
- The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.
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