Annette Funicello Quotes

• I still don’t know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.

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• I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

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• Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

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

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

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

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

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• As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

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

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

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

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

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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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