Annette Funicello Quotes

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  Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

  Annette Funicello

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Wonderful, Perfect, Suffering

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

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  Topics in Health

  Tags in Young, Single, Could

• I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

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  Topics in Father

  Tags in Always, Dad, Thought

• Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.

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

  Annette Funicello

• 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.

  Annette Funicello

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

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• Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting.

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

  Annette Funicello

• The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

  Annette Funicello

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

  Annette Funicello

• Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.

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

  Annette Funicello

• MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

  Annette Funicello

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

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

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• 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

• Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

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• In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.

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• I’ve always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart.

  Annette Funicello

Annette Funicello (33)

Birth:	22nd October, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Singer

About

Annette Joanne Funicello was born in Utica, New York. She was an American actress and singer. Funicello began her professional career as a child performer at the age of twelve. As a teenager, she transitioned to a successful career as a singer with the pop singles "O Dio Mio," "Tall Paul" and "Pineapple Princess", as well as establishing herself as a film actress, popularizing the successful "Beach Party" genre alongside co-star Frankie Avalon during the mid-1960s. After the Mickey Mouse Club, she remained under contract with Disney for a time, with television roles in Zorro, Elfego Baca, and The Horsemasters.

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