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I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

I'm a lifelong Disney nut.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

I don't know a kid who grew up in the '90s who wasn't obsessed with Disney, and I guess I never grew out of that phase, honestly. It's not just Disney: it's anything that has to do with fairytales for me. I think I just have Peter Pan Syndrome or something.

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.