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.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.