Mickey Mouse is one of the most loved characters of all time. He is the Mouse that built the House that is Walt Disney World, Disneyland, and Walt Disney Studios.

As one of Walt’s most beloved characters, Mickey Mouse has stood the test of time. He is the hero and friend that is consistently a good guy.

Mickey Mouse has been a friend to generations of children and adults alike. Life can be hard and full of difficulties so it is great to be able to turn to a cheerful, fun, and loyal old friend like Mickey Mouse; whether we are young or old.

Don’t forget to also check out these Walt Disney quotes about dreams, life and greatness.

Mickey Mouse quotes by Walt Disney

1. “I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.” – Walt Disney

2. “Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.” – Walt Disney

3. “The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life..” – Walt Disney

4. “I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing- that it was all started by a mouse.” – Walt Disney

5. “Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding..” – Walt Disney

6. “When people laugh at Mickey Mouse it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.” – Walt Disney

7. “The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.” – Walt Disney

8. “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

9. “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 ..” – Walt Disney

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

Mickey Mouse quotes from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

11. “Miska mouska Mickey Mouse.” – Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

12. “See you real soon.” – Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

13. “We’ve got ears; say, ‘Cheers!’” – Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

14. “Oh boy!” – Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

15. “Hot dog!” – Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

16. “Is it a fact that little old ladies come with a shiny and round nose?” – Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

17. “Welcome to our clubhouse!” – Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

18. “Now to make the clubhouse appear, we need to say the magic words, exactly right. ‘Cause if we don’t, well, something funny might happen. The magic words are: Meeska, Mooska, Mickey Mouse! Say it with me. Meeska, Mooska, Mickey Mouse!” – Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

19. “Speaking of dogs… look! it’s Pluto, and he’s sniffin’ somethin’.” – Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

20. “Whoa! Did you hear that? Hmm, what animal makes that sound?” – Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

Funny quotes about Mickey Mouse

21. “What I’ve realized recently is that the difference between me and Mickey Mouse is, there’s not a man that can go and say, ‘Look, can you get me in any faster? I’m Mickey Mouse.’ Whereas I can go in and say, ‘Look, could you get me a table faster? I’m Princess Leia.’” – Carrie Fisher

22. “I literally have Mickey Mouse tattooed on me.” – Jake Paul

23. “I used to give out Mickey Mouse awards to people. I like Mickey Mouse because he represented certain values. He invested in people, was good to his friends and hard on his enemies. Once a year, I would have our management team from each division come to an offsite, and I would talk about Mickey Mouse.” – Bernard L. Schwartz

24. “I’d vote for Mickey Mouse before I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin.” – Edgar Bronfman Sr.

25. “Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.” – Merv Griffin

26. All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn’t. They had big ears on them.” – Gerald Scarfe

27. “That was real baseball. We weren’t playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.” – Bill Lee

Wholesome Mickey Mouse quotes

 28. “I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.” – John Lasseter

29. “Whether it’s as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat – everyone knows Mickey Mouse.” – Warren Spector

30. “I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.” – Maurice Sendak

31. “Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.” – Warren Spector

32. “My Mickey Mouse ears were given to me by a dear friend. They remind me of how I need to be silly.” – Alice Ripley

33. “When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was my big head, my sister said she had to hold on to me. I went berserk.” – Maurice Sendak

34. “There are only a couple characters and people in the world where, in history, where you can go anywhere in the world and say that character or person, that name, that song, and everyone knows what it is. Mickey Mouse is one, Disney, in general.” – Jordan Fisher

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35. “Mickey Mouse… is always there-he’s part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.” – Annette Funicello

36. “Wayne was my hero. He really loved doing Mickey Mouse and was very proud that he did it 32 years.” – Russi Taylor

37. “My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney ‘Epic Mickey’ together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out.” – Warren Spector

People talking about Mickey Mouse quotes

38. “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.” –  Walt Disney

39. “Mickey Mouse was supposed to be called Mortimer, but Walt Disney’s wife found it creepy.” – Adam Anderson

40. “I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.” – Stan Getz

41. “Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!” –  Robin Williams

42. “I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party’s economic policy at the moment.” – George Osbone

More Mickey Mouse quotes

43. “Mickey Mouse did not stay the little squeaky guy in ‘Steamboat Willie.’ He went on to have many different versions.” – Paul Dini

44. “The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the ’30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.” – Annette Funicello

45. “The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We’re just… normal people.” – Karen Carpenter

46. “I wasn’t a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.” – Norah Jones

47. “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.” – Joseph Barbera

48. “My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.” – Annette Funicello

49. “When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.” – Walt Disney

50. “Walt Disney said everything he had ever accomplished was a result of Mickey Mouse. Mickey was Walt’s alter ego and he was originally modeled after Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp character. So without Chaplin, who knows what Mickey would have become!” – Bill Capodagli

51. “The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.” – Mickey Mantle

52. “Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.” – Jermaine Jackson

53. “Mickey Mouse should be in the public domain by now. What a better world it would be if other people were doing things with Mickey Mouse!” – Lloyd Kaufman

Mickey Mouse Quotes

1. “Oh, Boy!” – Mickey Mouse

2. “That sure is swell” – Mickey Mouse

3. “Live every moment as not to regret what you are about to do” – Mickey Mouse

4. “To laugh at yourself is to love yourself” – Mickey Mouse

5. “I can’t help you with revenge” – Mickey Mouse

6. “All you need is a little bit of magic” – Mickey Mouse

7. “Remember, it all started with a mouse” – Walt Disney

8. “Meeska Mooska Mickey Mouse” – Mickey Mouse

9. “Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes” – Mickey Mouse

10. “Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end” – Walt Disney

11. “This is it, guys. When these doors open, we got to make a very first impression” – Mickey Mouse

12. “If you can dream it, you can do it” – Mickey Mouse

13. “Don’t stress over anything that you can’t change” – Mickey Mouse

14. “I only hope we never lose sight of one thing, that it was all started by a mouse” – Walt Disney

15. “Oh, Toodles”! – Mickey Mouse

16. “We got ears, say cheers” – Mickey Mouse

17. “I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known” – Walt Disney

18. “I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of funniness and happiness” – Maurie Sendak

19. “Mickey Mouse… is always there – he’s part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame” – Annette Funicello

20. “Never go to Pluto; it’s a Mickey Mouse planet” – Robin Williams

21. “The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 meters” – Steve Ovett

22. “Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall rat” – Robin Williams

23. “The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life” – Walt Disney

24. “When I was poor, living in a garage in Kansas, I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. This is how Mickey Mouse was born” – Walt Disney

25. “Best friends stick together” – Mickey Mouse

26. “Lie? Well, lie or no lie, Musketeers do not run from danger, and as long as we wear these uniforms, neither do we”? – Mickey Mouse

27. “I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s in the suit” – Keanu Reeves

28. “Sorry I am late, everybody. I had to stop by the bank. I was over-drawn” – Mickey Mouse

29. “I was always like Mickey Mouse with tattoos” – Diamond Dallas Page

30. “Happiness is not about having or not having problems. Everyone has problems, but not everyone is happy” – Mickey Mouse

31. “The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We’re just normal people” – Karen Carpenter

32. “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” – Joseph Barbara

33. “Every election, Mickey Mouse looks better and better as president” – Duncan Long

34. “When you say ‘comic book’ in America, people think of Mickey Mouse and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile” – Mark Hamill

35. “See ya, real soon” – Mickey Mouse

36. “I may be small, but I’ve got friends that make me feed ten-feet-tall” – Mickey Mose

37. “Smile, Breathe and Believe in magic” – Mickey Mouse

38. “Every child is born a genius” – Mickey Mouse

39. “There is magic all around” – Mickey Mouse

40. “Come inside! It’s fun inside”! – Mickey Mouse

41. “I’m a Disney fan. Like, seriously, if I see Mickey Mouse, I light up” – LeToya Luckett

42. “Mickey represented an honest product, a pure spirit, and a cheerful heart; a staggeringly simple pleasure in the exercise of the imagination” – Eve Zibart

43. “I often find myself surprised at what has been said about our redoubtable little Mickey; who was never really a most not yet a wholly man” – Walt Disney

44. “But all we ever intended for him was there he should make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him” – Walt Disney on Mickey Mouse

45. “When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity” – Walt Disney

46. “Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding” – Walt Disney

47. “We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little” – Walt Disney

48. “Understandably, 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 ..”-Walt Disney

49. “By nature, I’m an experimenter. To this day, I don’t believe in sequels. I can’t follow popular cycles. I have to move on to new things. So with the success of Mickey, I was determined to diversify.” – Walt Disney

50. “Hot dog”! – Mickey Mouse