Annette Funicello Quotes

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.

You have a deeper, wiser, loving self that you can always ask for help.

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

I am the creator of my reality

The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down.

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.

You don't have to pound your head after hearing a country song and wonder if you missed something.

As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think.

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.

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.

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

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.

The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.

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