Annette Funicello

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was not prepared to live as a single parent.

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

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