Walt Disney gave us the time to build them and go around and just build things. Anything we wanted we could make. Show less «

[on taking over the voice of Mickey Mouse from Walt Disney] Walt called me, I was on the stage here and a girl called me and said, "can you come up? Walt wants to see you." It was in the middle of the Mickey and the Beanstalk (1947) and I went up and he said, "I can't do it anymore. I'm just too busy." So, he asked me if I could do a Mickey voice and I tried it and he said, "Yeah, that sounds pretty good." Show less «

I worked on many pictures and never knew the names of the things. I'd be down there doing the effects and the name wasn't really important to me, as it was to the animators. Show less «