Russi Taylor Quotes

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

Working for Disney for the last eight and a half years, people come and go - production staff and actors. I stepped onto the sound stage and it was a literal time warp.

There was a guy that I got to know pretty well - Joe Grant. He was one of the creators of Dumbo and worked side-by-side with Disney. Being a total Disney nerd, I was obsessed with asking him questions. He was 92 when I got to know him.

The attributes we're focused on for Mickey are exactly the ones Walt had in mind in the first place. The original Mickey was impish and irreverent. Walt sanitized him because when Mickey got so popular, there was a fear that his behavior was influencing kids.

Mickey Mouse did not stay the little squeaky guy in 'Steamboat Willie.' He went on to have many different versions.

I've done the voice for the Hulk for the animated cartoon.

Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella.

Sterling Holloway, the actor who had originally voiced Pooh, decided to retire in the mid-1980s. Disney decided that they wanted to continue this character with their 'New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' TV series.

Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'

Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

Mel Blanc has been gone for 30 years, even though he's still around.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career.

The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away.

I have a paper, pencil, and ink sketch for a Mickey Mouse cartoon short entitled 'Mickey's Garden' from 1935.

I've been your yellow M&M for, oh, at least two decades or so, and I've done a lot of other animated stuff in between.

I've done 'Yo Gabba Gabba!' I've done... oh, it's not called 'Rapunzel' anymore. 'Tangled', that's it. Those are both huge.

I'm very lucky. I do voiceovers, 'Family Guy,' on and on, and quite frankly, I'm one of the luckiest actors in the world. I was able to create a character who became iconic.

On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey.

My hope is that, in years to come, people will still be watching 'The Clone Wars,' and they'll still hold up. That's my goal - time tested.

Mickey Mouse to me means safety, comfort and tradition. A general wash of happiness.

Jim Henson once allowed me to visit the Muppets on set and spent an entire day showing me how he and the other puppeteers performed Kermit and all the characters! After that, I was lucky enough to work with both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on many fun animation projects and learned so much from them.